If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough. And our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed. He believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought. Man can paint, or make, or think, nothing but man. Our theism is the purification of the human mind. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes. The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism, Buddhism, Mahometism, are the necessary and structural action of the human mind. The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons. But enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting, like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas, - the more, the worse. The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens. But if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it, and put myself on the road to-day. Yes, but I do not travel to find comfortable, rich and hospitable people, or clear sky, or ingots that cost too much.
You say, the English are practical the Germans are hospitable in Valencia the climate is delicious and in the hills of the Sacramento there is gold for the gathering. We travel into foreign parts to find his works, - if possible, to get a glimpse of him. Youth and the most serious occupation of manhood. The search after the great man is the dream of
Their names are wrought into the verbs of language, their works and effigies are in our houses, and every circumstance of the day recalls an anecdote of them. We call our children and our lands by their names. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society and, actually or ideally, we manage to live with superiors.
They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet. All mythology opens with demigods, and the circumstance is high and poetic that is, their genius is paramount. If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us.
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