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the mind no, it is an idealized portrait which always we draw of them. Upon an intelligent man, wholly a stranger to their names, they would make in conversation no deep impression, none of a world-filling fame, [they would be remembered as sensible, well-read, earnest men, not more. Especially are they all deficient, all these four, --- in different degrees, but all deficient, in insight into religious truth. They have no idea of that species of moral truth which I call the first philosophy. . . .

As the young man returned to the New World, the Creative Spirit spoke again.

Let us hear this new thing. It is very old. It is the old revelation, that perfect beauty is perfect goodness, it is the development of the wonderful congruities of the moral law of human nature. Let me enumerate a few of the remarkable properties of that nature. A man contains all that is needful to his government within himself. He is made a law unto himself. All real good or evil that can befall him must be from himself. . . . The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself. He is not to live to the future as described to him, but to live to the real future by living to the real present. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

With the coming of this oracle, the young