SELF-RELIANCE
64 allax,
without calculable elements, which shoots
a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions, if the least
pear
The
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mark of independence ap-
inquiry leads us to that source, at
once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life,
which we
denote all
this
call
In that deep
tuitions.'
analysis cannot
behind which
things find their
all
common
origin.
the sense of being which in calm hours
know
not how, in the soul,
things,
from space, from
We
as Intuition, whilst
primary wisdom
later teachings are
force, the last fact
go,
Spontaneity or Instinct.
For
rises,
we
not diverse from
is
light,
from time, from
man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature and forget that we have shared their cause.
of thought.
Here Here
is
the fountain of action and
are the lungs of that inspi-
ration which giveth
man wisdom and which
cannot be denied without jmpiety and atheism.
We lie in the lap of immense makes us
receivers of
its activity.
its
When we
discern truth,
intelligence,
truth and organs of
discern justice,
we do nothing of
allow a passage to
its
which
beams.
If
when we
ourselves, but
we ask whence