In metaphysical points

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Pure and Positive Truth ^^{About Metaphysical points}.—It seems to me, ^^{In metaphysical points, here is what I guess about pure and positive truths.} I guess that after all reasoning and analogy and their most palpable demonstrations of any thing, ^{we have} the ^^{only real satisfaction comes only when the} soul tells and tests by its own arch-chemic power—something as superior to the learnedest and reasoning proofs and finest reasoning, as one glance of the ^^living sight, is more than ^{quarto volumes of} the elaborate description ^^{and and of maps.—} filling a thousand quarto volumes.—There is something in vast learning erudition melancholy and fruitless as an Arctic sea.—With most men it is a slow large dream, and in a fog too dreamed in a moving fog.—So complacent! So much body and muscle; fine legs to walk,—large supple hands—but the eyes are owl's eyes, and the heart is a mackerel's heart.—These words are for the great men, the giants ^^{gigantic few} that have reached ^plunged themselves out into space ^{deep through density} and confusion, and pushed back the jealous coverings of the earth, and told us the ^{brought out the true and} great things, and ^^{the sweet} true things, that hang ^{and hung them} like ^^{round ripe} oranges, on the rounder and riper than ever before, ^{all the rest,} on the limbs of ^{among our f} literature and science.—These words are for the ^^{five or six} grand poets, too; and the masters of artists:— ^^{I waste no ink, nor my throat,} on the huge ever-deploying armies of professors, authors, lawyers, teachers and what not,. let us waste no words ink or breath. ^{type.—Of them} we expect of them to ^{that they} be very learned, and nothing of more.—

What gentlemen! what then? Do you suppose it is for your geology and your chemistry and your mathematics

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