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As ^^{you know how} the one brain includes those diverging and converging variety of ^{beautiful wonders the} perceptions or senses, and ^{—^includes also} what we call mind and the subtle faculties ^^processes of thought and reason and causality, with ^^{also and} an infinite variety else, so diverging and converging as to either enfold ^^{wind its fingers around} the whole world or analyze make much of the finest thread of silk,—in some suc ^{or wind its fingers round the world.—}   [ begin leaf 2 verso ]loc.00142.004.jpg Well the one obligation ^duty under which a man or woman ^^{is bound} to himself or herself, is the enfolder or of all else every bit that follows.—O All That ^^{our duty} is the only love and ^^{independent, life living} entire obligation.—^^{As small pipes from the aqueduct main} The rest are par beautiful parts that flow out of it. If as small pipes from the aqueduct main though they come from not from it ^thence, are only so many   [ begin leaf 3 recto ]loc.00142.005.jpg dead and ghastly arms and ^or legs, ghastly p ^perhaps galvanised into ^^{a little} motion, but having no connection with the vitality of from the lungs and heart—and taking no start thence. ^{And these are what the world is calls its duties.}

¶ You have ^^{for instance} heard ^^{been warned} through your h whole life, week days and Sundays, of ^^{to pay} your duty ^devoir to God.—I know of no such thing.—I know ^{if it were the main matter, as under the name of pray ^Religion the original and main matter.} Really there is no such thing.—What is called such, even accepting the most florid and   [ begin leaf 3 verso ]loc.00142.006.jpg ? large description of it, is but one little item in the illimitable ^{sum of that} boundless ^^account budget of which a man must should be ready to pay ^^{always balancing with} his own sould

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I can be I know nothing more melancholy dismal and bleak and shrunken ^^{and shrivelled} than

I have seen corpses sunken an shrunken and shrivelled—I have seen ^^{dismal mannikins of} abortions, still‑births ^? hideous   [ begin leaf 4 recto ]loc.00142.007.jpg and ^so small enough to ^{that the} he ^^doctors preserved ^^themin bottles—But no corpse have I t seen—no minnied abortion—that sem seems ^appears to ^^me more more shrunken, away from comparison to the fullest muscular health of some fine giant—seems to me more more inert and shining and blue and fit for the swiftest burial—more pain painfully^?   [ begin leaf 4 verso ]loc.00142.008.jpg dead and in the way of more awfully a corpse because ^a some its heir a beautiful ^^{strong and perfect shaped} and affectionate youth, in living strength and suppleness, stands there ready to take his horse ^room when the bier hearse carries the coffin ^defunct away—then all the whole and the best of what has been called ^{for three times a thousand years} over this great earth has been called, and is still called, Religion, seems to me in comparison   [ begin leaf 5 recto ]loc.00142.009.jpg with the ???? devotion ^worship ^^{extatic as the emb closest embraces of the god that made this globeit} which vaststronger than the propulsion of this globe in its ‸ —fiercer than the fires of the sun around which it t eternally swings—more faithful than the faith that keeps it in ^^its company and place—divergent and vast as the space that lies beyond—which belongs to eve any well developed man. ^ loving and as gentle as the ^{in a sort worthy that} immeasurable love and gentleness of that that is ^are the   [ begin leaf 5 verso ]loc.00142.010.jpg spark which is the great law whence spring the ^ laesser laws we call Nature's