Talbot Wilson

True noble expanded American character is raised on a far more lasting and universal basis than that of any of the characters of of the "gentlemen" of aristocratic life, or of novels, or in the European or Asiatic forms of society or government.—It is to be illimitably proud, independent, self-possessed and generous and gentle.—It is to accept nothing except what is equally free and eligible to every body else.—It is to be poor, rather than rich—but to prefer 17   [ begin leaf 10 verso ]loc.00141.020.jpg death sooner than any mean dependence.—Prudence is part of it, because prudence is the right arm of independence.

Every American young man should carry himself with the finished and haughty bearing of the greatest ruler and proprietor—for he is the a great ruler and proprietor—th the greatest.

Bring Play your muscle, and it will be lithe as willow and gutta   [ begin leaf 11 recto ]loc.00141.021.jpg caoutchouc and strong as iron—I wish to see American young men the workingmen, carry themselves with a high horse

Where is the being of whom I am the inferior?—It is the [no handwritten text supplied here] of ^^the sly or shallow to divide men like the metals, into those more precious and others less precious, instrinsically

I never yet knew what it was to feel how it felt to ^^{think I} stanood in the presence of my superior.—I could now abase myself if God If the presence of Jah were God were made visible immediately before ^^me, I could not abase myself.—How do I know but I shall myself

I will not have ^be the cart, nor the load on the cart, nor the horses that draw the cart; but I will be the ^little pair of little hands that guide the cart.—

Liberty is not the end ^fruition but the dawn of the morning of a nation.—The night has passed and the day appears when people walk abroad—to do evil or to do good

The soul or spirit transmutes itself into all matter—into rocks, and cand live the life of a rock—into the sea, and can feel itself the sea—into the oak, or other tree—into an animal, and feel itself a horse, a fish, or a bird—into the earth—into the motions of the suns and stars—

A man only is interested in any thing when he identifies himself with it—he must himself be whirling and speeding through space like the planet   [ begin leaf 15 recto ]loc.00141.029.jpgMercury—he must be driving like a cloud—he must shine like the sun—he must be orbic and balanced in the air, like this earth—he must crawl like the pismire—he must

—he would be growing fragrantly in the air, like a the locust blossoms—he would rumble and crash like the thunder in the sky—he would spring like a cat on his prey—he would splash like a whale in the

The mean and bandaged soul ^spirit is perpetually dissatisfied with itself—It is too wicked, or too poor, or too feeble

Never speak of the soul as any thing but intrinsically great.—The adjective affixed to it must always testify greatness and immortaliy​ and purity.—

The ^^{effusion or corporation of the} soul is always under the beautiful laws of physiology—I guess the soul itself can never be any thing but great and pure and immortal; but it is [illegible] makes itself visible only through matter—a perfect head, and bot bowels ^^{and bones} to match will is the easy gate through which it comes from its wonderful ^embowered garden, and pleasantly appears to the sight  [ begin leaf 17 recto ]loc.00141.033.jpg of the world.—A twisted skull, and blood made ^becom thin ^watery or rotten by ^^{ancestry or} gluttony, or rum or bad disorders,—they are the darkness toward which the plant will not grow, although its seed lies inwaiting for ages.—

Wickedness is most likely the absence of freedom and health in the soul.—If a man ^^babe or woman ^^babe of decent progenitors should grow up without restraint or starvation or

^{Every soul has its own language,} The reason why any truth is which I tell is not apparent to you, is mostly because I fail of translating it from my language into

Every soul has its own individual language, often unspoken, or lamely ^feebly haltingly spoken; but a perfect ^true fit for [illegible]that a and man, and perfectly adapted forto his use.—The truths I tell ^^to you or any other, may not be apparent ^plain to you, ^{or that other,} because I do not translate them well ^{right fully} from my idiom into yours.—If I could do so, and do it well, they would be as apparent to you as they are to me; for they are eternal truths.—No two have exactly the same language, but ^and the great translator 35   [ begin leaf 19 verso ]loc.00141.038.jpg and joiner of all ^^{the whole} is the poet, because He enters into th has the divine grammar of all tongues, and what says ^^{indifferently and alike,} How are you friend? to the President in the midst of his cabinet, and Good day my brother, to Sambo, among the black slaves ^{rowed hoes} of the sugar field, and both ^^{understand him and} know that his his speech is ^^right, well, ^right. —for his hi

The universal and fluid soul impounds within itself not only all the good characters and heros​ , but the distorted characters, murderers, thieves

Dilation

I think the soul will never stop, or attain to any its growth beyond which it shall ^not go. no further.—^^When I have sometimes when I walked at night by the sea shore and looked up to ^at the stars countless stars, and ^^{I have} asked of my soul whether it would be filled and satisfied when it was ^^{should become} thea god enfolding an all these, and open to the life and delight and knowledge of every thing in them or of them; and the answer was plainer to my ear ^me 39   [ begin leaf 21 verso ]loc.00141.042.jpg than^at the sa breaking water on the sands at my feet; and it ^^{the answer} was, No, when I reach there, I shall want more to go further still.—

When you show me how ^{I inquire see where} the east is greater than the west,—how ^where the ^^sound man's part of the ^^{new born} child is greater than the ^^sound woman's part—how or where the ^a father [no handwritten text supplied here] than is more needful than a mother to produce me—then I know ^guess I shall see how spirit is greater than matter.—On ^Here The run of poets and the learned invariably ^always stub their toes here, and generally fall and sh

I cannot understand the mystery, but I ^^am always think ^^conscious of myself as two—as my soul and I; and I gu reckon it is the same with all oth men and women.—

whose sides are crowded with the rich cities of all living philosophy, and oval gates hop that let ^pass you in to immortal gardens landscapes of hill sides and fields of clover ^{and sass} and landscapes of clumped with sassafras, and orchards of good apples, and if you ^every breath ^^{through your mouth} shall be of a new perfumed, immortal and elastic air, which is love.—

But I will take every ^each man ^on or ^and woman ^^{man and woman of you} to the window and open the shutters and the sash, and my left arm shall hook him ^you round the waist, and my right shall point shall point you to the road endless and beginningless road along

I will not be a great philosopher, and found any school, and bring build it on ^with iron pillars, and gather the young me around me, and make them my disciples, and found a ^{that a} new ^^superior churches orand politics. ^^{shall come.—}☜ —But I will show every man, unhook the sh open the shutters and the window ^sash, and you shall stand at my side, and I will show ^{hook my lefting arm around your waist till I point} you ^^to the road ^^along which leads to all the learning ^knowledge and truth and pleasure ^{are the cities of all living} philosophy and all pleasure.—Not I or any ^—not God—can travel47   [ begin leaf 25 verso ]loc.00141.050.jpg it ^{this road} for you.—It is not far, it is within reach ^{the stretch} of your arm ^thumb; perhaps you shall find you are on it already, and did not know.—Perhaps you shall find it every where on ^over the ocean and ^^over the land, when you once have the vision to behold it.—

If I am hungry and with my money ^{last dime} buy a loaf of ^{get me some meat and} bread, and would have appetite enough to eat ^relish it all.—But ^^then like a phantom at my side ^^suddenly appears a starved face, either human or brute, uttering not a word,. but with— Am I a ^{Have I then} the passionless squid or clam-shell, not to feel in my heart that now I am it were my

Now do I talk of mine and his?—Is ^^Has my heart no more passion than the ^a squid or clam shell hads?

The world ^^{ignorant man} is demented with the madness of owning things—of having title ^{by warranty} deeds and lawful possession ^{court clerks' records}, and ^with perfect ^the right to mortgage, sell, dispose of ^{give away} or raise money on certain possessions.—But the wisest soul knows that nothing ^^{no not one object} in the vast universe can really be owned by one man or woman any more than another.—The measureless fool ^orthodox who fancies that ^{who proprietor} says tThis is mine. I earned or received or paid for it,—and ^^{by an positive right of my own I} I will put this ^a fence around it, and keep the it exclusively to myself—. . . . . . yYet—yet—what ^^cold drop is   [ begin leaf 28 recto ]loc.00141.055.jpg that it that ^^{which slowly} patters, patters like ^water fine points cold ^with sharp and specks of water down ^{poisoned points,} on the skull of his greediness, and go whichever way he will ^may, it still hits him, as though he see not whence it comes ^drips nor what it is?—How can I be so ^that dismal and measureless fool not to understand ^see the hourly lessons of an ^the ^^one eternal law, which that he who would grab blessings to himself, and as by right, and deny others their equal chance—and will not share with them every thing that he has

He cannot share with them his friend or his wife because no man owns these ^{of them} he is no owner, except of He except of ^by their love, and if any one gets that away from him, he had should lets wife and friend the whole wife and friend go, the tail with the hide.

[transposition mark] may as well be it is best not to curse, but quietly call the offal cart to his door and let ^^physical wife or friend go, the tail with the hide.—

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