Essays (First Series)

THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same andto all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of thewhole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; whatat any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universalmind 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.