could hide a god from a god and there is a greek verse which runs the gods are to each other not unknown friends also follow the laws of divine necessity they to each other and cannot otherwise � when each the other shall avoid shall each by each be most enjoyed their relation is not made but allowed the gods must seat themselves without in our and as they can themselves by divine society is spoiled if pains are taken if the associates are brought a mile to meet and if it be not society it is a mischievous low degrading though made up of the best all the greatness of each is kept back and every in painful activity as if the should meet to exchange snuff boxes life goes headlong we chase some flying scheme or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us but if suddenly we encounter a friend we pause our heat and hurry look foolish enough now pause now possession is required aud the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart the moment is all in all noble relations a divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart our waits for the fulfilment of these two in one the ages are opening this moral force all force is the shadow or symbol of that poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence men write their names on the world as they are filled with this history been mean our nations have been we have never seen a man that divine form we do not yet know but only the dream and prophecy of such we do not know the majestic manners which belong to him which and the we shall one day see that the most private is the most public energy that quality for quantity and grandeur essay iii of character acts in the dark and them who never saw it what greatness has yet appeared is and to us in this direction the history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped are documents of character the ages have in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune and who was hanged at the of his nation who by the pure quality of his nature shed an splendor around the facts of his death which has every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind this great defeat is hitherto our highest fact but the mind requires a victory to the senses a force b character which will convert judge jury soldier and king which will rule animal and virtues and with the courses of sap of rivers of winds of stars and of moral agents if we cannot attain at a bound to these at least let us do them homage in society high advantages are set down to the possessor as it requires the more in our private i do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character and to entertain it with thankful hospitality when at last that which we have always longed for is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land then to be coarse then to be character and treat such a the and suspicion of the streets a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven this is confusion this the right insanity when the soul no longer knows its own nor where its its religion are due is there any religion but this to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower it for me if none sees it i see it i am aware if i alone of the greatness of the fact whilst it i will keep sabbath or holy time and my gloom and my folly and jokes nature is indulged by the presence of this guest there are many eyes that can detect � honor the prudent and household virtues there are many that can discern genius on his track though the mob is incapable but when that love which is all suffering all all which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any comes into our streets and houses � only the pure and can know its face and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it manners � how near to good is what is fair which we no sooner see but with the lines and outward air our senses taken be again yourselves compose and now put all the on of figure that proportion or color can disclose that if those silent arts were lost design and picture they might boast from you a ground instructed by the sense of dignity and reverence in their true motions found ben essay it m anne rs half the world it is said knows not how the other half live our exploring expedition saw the getting their dinner off human bones and they are said to eat their own wives and children the of the modem inhabitants of west of old is philosophical to a fault to set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three pots a stone to grind meal and a mat which is the bed the house namely a tomb is ready without rent or taxes no rain can pass through the roof and there is no door for there is no want of one as there is nothing to lose if the house do not please them they walk out and enter another as there are several hundreds at their command it is somewhat singular adds to whom we owe this account o talk of happiness among people who live in among the and 