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.—

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

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

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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

I can be

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

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?

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

with the ???? devotion worship _^extatic as the emb closest embraces of the god that made this globe it which was stronger 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

spark which is the great law whence spring the _^ laesser laws we call Nature's

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Consecration of priests in Trinity Church—interlinking of hands.

The life car—the ? to shoot the rope over the ship—the ? on which the life car runs—and the process of passing them ashore

He drinks up quickly All terms, all languages, and words. meanings.—To his curbless and bottomless powers, they are as be like the small ponds of rain water to the migrating herds of buffalo when they spread over occupy square miles and who make the earth _^[illegible] miles square. look like a creeping spread.—Look See! he has only passed this way, and they are drained dry.

You break your arm, and a good surgeon sets it at and cures you complete; but nor no cure ever [illegible] avails for an organic disease of the heart.

Most of the reforms of the world are Your mighty religious and political improvements—good enough as far as they go—are still but partial reforms— a good arm— back—a well shaped foot—a fine head of hair—a a good nice ear for music—or a _^peculiar faculty for engineering.

I would give you the entire health, _^both of mind spirit and flesh, the life of _^grace and strength and action, from which as from all else flows, as from an a never-failing spring.— It What I give you, I [illegible]know, cannot be argued about, and will not attract men's enthusiasms and interests

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The ox is too dtired—he rests standing

The attraction of gravity is the law under which you make your house plumb but that's not what the law is specially made for

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do not _^more than symbolize the reflection of the reflection, from of the spark from of a some tthrown off a spark, from a some coal in the some [illegible] emanation of some of those pettier attributes of God.—which we out the greatest Even these the greatest of the [illegible] great men of the world, can in their happier _^best moments

Love, Reality, and Immortality and are the triune reins wherewith the Driver of the universe

delicious as the kisses of God.—

All the _^ computation vastness of Astronomy—and space—systems of suns+++ [illegible] carried [illegible] in to _^their computation to the very bound farthest that figures will are able or that the broadest ? mathematical faculty can hold—and then multiplied in geometrical progression ten thousand million fold back

even Though to this reflection the dazzle of unnumbered

All such vastness and reality does not satisfy the soul and shout worthy

The air which furnishes me the breath to speak is subtle and boundless—but what is it compared th to the things it serves me to speak—the meanings—