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Show and by loveI conquer and incorporate them @zgay o in my own conscious domain. His virtue,- Compengatio is not that mine? His wit,-if it cannot b made mine, it is not wit Such, also, is the natural history of calamity The changes, which break up at short intervals the prosperity of men, are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth Evermore it is the order of nature to grow and every soul is, by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, it friends and home and laws and faith, as th shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful bu stony case, because it no longer admits o its growth, and slowly forms a new house In proportion to the vigorof the individual these revolutions are frequent, until i some happier mind they are incessant, an all worldly relations hang very loosely abou him, becoming, as it were, a transparen fluid membrane, through which the livin form is always seen, and not, as in mos men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric o many dates and of no settled character, i 4 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |