![]() ![]() ![]() By the same obedience to other thoughts we learn theirs, and then comes some reasonable hope of harmonizing them. What to do? By obeying each thought frankly, by harping, or, if you will, pounding on each string, we learn at last its power. But our geometry cannot span these extreme points and reconcile them. If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character. īut if there be irresistible dictation, this dictation understands itself. We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation: that is to say, there is Fate, or laws of the world. But the boys and girls are not docile we can make nothing of them. After many experiments we find that we must begin earlier,-at school. We are fired with the hope to reform men. In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations. 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return and reconcile their opposition. ![]() How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. It so happened that the subject had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times. IT chanced during one winter a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. ![]()
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