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sess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come Selfnear me but through my act. "What Reliance we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love." If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations, let us enter into the state of war, and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth. Check this lying hospitality and lying affection. Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse. Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O' friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's.

Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no less than the Self- external law. I will have no covenants Reliance but proximities. I shall endeavor to nourish my parents, to support my family, to be the chaste husband of one wife, but these relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way. I appeal from your customs. I must be myself.

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I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier. If you cannot, I will still to deserve that you should. I must be myself. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints.

If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and

myself by hypocritical attentions. If

you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your com- Selfpanions; I will seek my own. I do Reliance this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth. Does this sound harsh today? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.-But so you may give these friends pain ☛ Yes, but I cannot sell my liberty and my power, to save their sensibility. Besides, all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth; then will they justify me and do the same thing o

The populace think that your rejec

tion of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antiSelf- nomianism; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or, in the reflex way. Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father, mother, cousin, neighbor, town, cat and dog; whether any of these can upbraid you.

But I may also neglect this reflex standard, and absolve me to myself. I have my own stern claims and perfect circle. It denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties. But if I can discharge its debts, it enables me to dispense with

the popular code. If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day. SelfAnd truly it demands something god- Reliance like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others.

If any may consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics. The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are becoming timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our

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