Essays: 1st and 2nd Series (1908)

THERE is one mind cornrnon to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the samc and to all of the sanlc. IIe t. llat is once admittcd to the right of reason is made a freeman of c whole estate. What llato haw thought, he may think what s saint has felt, he rnay feel what at any time has 1 efallcn any man, he can understand. JVbo hath access to this universal mind is a party ta all that is ol can bc done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. Of the worlrs of this mind history is thc record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. ISIan is explicablc by nothing less than all his his tory. VTithout hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning ta embody cvery faculty, every thought, every emotion which belongs to it, in appropriate events. But the thought is always prior to thc fact all the facts of history preExist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is mLade by circumvtanccs predominant, and the limits