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Trinity, baptism, and eucharist. I let them all drop in sight of the glorious beauty of those inward laws or harmonies which ravished the eye of Jesus, of Socrates, of Plato, of Dante, of Milton, of George Fox, of Swedenborg.

14. I have no curiosity respecting historical Christianity; respecting persons and miracles: I take the phenomenon as I find it, and let it have its effect on me, careless whether it is a poem or a chronicle.

15. It is because the Bible wears black cloth. It comes with a certain official claim against which the mind revolts. The book has its own nobilities might well be charming, if it was left simply on its merits, as the others; but this 'you must', `it is your duty', repels. 'Tis like the introduction of martial law into Concord. If you should dot our farms with picket lines, and I could not go or come across lots without a pass, I should resist, or else emigrate.

16. With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires; nor can the Bible be closed until the last great man is born.

17. I look for the hour when that Supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews, and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also. The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences, that have