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In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

10. Every thing that tends to insulate the individual, to surround him with barriers of natural respect, so that each man shall feel the world is his, and man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state, tends to true union as well as greatness.

11. The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare all.

12. Character is . . . moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature. An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

13. Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit; not to be reckoned one character ; --- not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so, brothers and friends please God, ours shall not be so. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own