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HISTORY.

THERE is no great and no small
To the Soul that maketh all:
And where it cometh, all things are ;
And it cometh everywhere.

I am owner of the sphere,

Of the seven stars and the solar year,

Of Cæsar's hand, and Plato's brain,

Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspeare's strain.

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THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.

Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion which belongs to it, in appropriate events. But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits

of nature give power to but one at a time. A n is the whole encyclopædia of facts. The creat of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egy Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folċ already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, can kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are mer the application of his manifold spirit to the mɛ ifold world.

This human mind wrote history, and this m read it. The Sphinx must solve her own ridd If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to explained from individual experience. There i relation between the hours of our life and the c turies of time. As the air I breathe is dra from the great repositories of nature, as the lig on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millic of miles distant, as the poise of my body depen on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripet forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ag and the ages explained by the hours. Of the unive sal mind each individual man is one more inca nation. All its properties consist in him. Eac new fact in his private experience flashes a light o what great bodies of men have done, and the crise of his life refer to national crises. Every revolutio was first a thought in one man's mind, and whe the same thought occurs to another man, it is th key to that era. Every reform was once a privat

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