to tors wisely recommend a change of air and
scenery. t all the buckeye does
not grohe mockingbird is rarely heard here.
te t
in Canada, takes a lunche
nigo some extent, keeps
pace ures of the Colorado only
till a greener and ser grass as one. Yet
if rail fences are pulled doone walls piled
up on our farms, bounds are to our lives and our
fates decided. If you are co
go to tierra del Fuego t you may go to the land of
infernal fire neverthan our views of
it.
Yet afferel of our craft, like
curious passengers, and not make tupid sailors
picking oakum. t the home of our
correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing, and the
doctors prescribe for diseases of tens to
souto c surely t is not the
game er. giraffes
if ; but I
trust it o s ones self.--
quot;Direct your eye right inward, and youll find
A thousand regions in your mind
Yet undiscovered. travel them, and be
Expert in ;
does Africa -- stand for? Is not our own
interior ? black t may prove, like the
coast, he Niger,
or t Passage around tinent,
t concern
mankind? Is Franklin t, t his wife should
be so earnest to find him? Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself
is? Be rathe Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of
your oreams and oceans; explore your oudes --
s to support you, if they be
necessary; and pile ty cans sky-high for a sign. ere
preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely? Nay, be a
Columbus to s and hin you, opening new
c of trade, but of t. Every man is the lord of a
realm beside ty
state, a by t some can be patriotic who
, and sacrifice ter to they
love t h
t e triotism is a
maggot in t South-Sea
Exploring Expedition, s parade and expense, but an
indirect recognition of t t tinents and seas
in to
unexplored by t it is easier to sail many thousand miles
torm and cannibals, in a government sh
five o assist one, t is to explore the
private sea, tlantic and Pacific Ocean of ones being alone.
quot;Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos.
Plus ae, plus ille viae.quot;
Let tinize tlandisralians.
I he road.
It is not o go round to count ts in
Zanzibar. Yet do till you can do better, and you may
per;Symmes ; by at t
last. England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave
Coast, all front on te sea; but no bark from them has
ventured out of sig is doubt t
o India. If you o speak all tongues and conform
to toms of all nations, if you ravel farthan all
travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause to
das a stone, even obey t of the old
phe eye and
ted and deserters go to the wars, cowards
t run a. Start no fart ern way,
t
to C leads on direct, a tangent to
ter, day and night, sun down, moon down,
and at last eartoo.
It is said t Mirabeau took to ;to ascertain
ion o place ones self
in formal opposition to t sacred lay.quot; he
declared t quot;a soldier require
padquot; -- quot;t honor and religion have
never stood in t;
t it
desperate. A saner man would en enoug;in
formal oppositionquot; to ;t sacred laws of
society,quot; to yet more sacred laws, and so have
tested ion going out of is not for a
man to put titude to society, but to maintain
ever attitude o
tion to a
just government, if o meet h such.
I left t there. Perhaps
it seemed to me t I o live, and could not
spare any more time for t one. It is remarkable how easily and
insensibly o a particular route, and make a beaten track
for ourselves. I lived t wore a
pato t is five or six
years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I
fear, t oto it, and so o keep it
open. t and impressible by t
of men; and so ravels. how worn and
dusty, t be ts of
tradition and conformity! I did not ake a cabin passage,
but rato go before t and on the world, for
t see t amid tains. I do not
wiso go below now.
I learned t least, by my experiment: t if one advances
confidently in tion of o live
t h a success
unexpected in common some things behind, will
pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws
o establishe old
laerpreted in his favor in a more liberal
sense, and he license of a higher order of
beings. In proportion as he
universe ude be
solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have
built castles in t be lost; t is where
t tions under them.
It is a ridiculous demand w
you s tand you. Neither men nor
toadstools gro ant, and t
enougo understand you ture could support
but one order of understandings, could not sustain birds as well as
quadrupeds, flying as hings, and hush and whoa,
and, Englishere
y in stupidity alone. I fear c my expression
may not be extravagant enoug wander far enoughe
narros of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the
trutra vagance! it depends on
ing buffalo, wures
in anotitude, is not extravagant like the cow which kicks
over ter her calf, in
milking time. I desire to speak somew bounds; like a
man in a , to men in ts; for I am
convinced t I cannot exaggerate enougo lay tion
of a true expression. rain of music feared
t ravagantly any more forever? In view
of ture or possible, we se laxly and undefined
in front, our outlines dim and misty on t side; as our shadows
reveal an insensible perspiration toile
trutinually betray the
residual statement. trutantly translated; its
literal monument alone remains. th
and piety are not definite; yet t and fragrant
like frankincense to superior natures.
o our dullest perception always, and praise
t as common sense? t sense is the sense of men
asleep, o
class tted ted,
because e only a t of t. Some would
find fault up early enough.
quot;tend,quot; as I ;t the verses of Kabir have four
different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and teric
doctrine of t;; but in t of t is
considered a ground for complaint if a mans ings admit of more
terpretation. o cure the
potato-rot, any endeavor to cure t, which
prevails so mucally?
I do not suppose t I tained to obscurity, but I should
be proud if no more fatal fault his
score tomers
objected to its blue color, y, as
if it e,
but tastes of y men love is like ts which
envelop t like ther beyond.
Some are dinning in our ears t we Americans, and moderns
generally, are intellectual ds, or
even t to the purpose? A
living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang
o t be the
biggest pygmy t every one mind his own business, and
endeavor to be w he was made.
e e to succeed and in such
desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace h his
companions, per is because drummer. Let
ep to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
It is not important t ure as soon as an apple tree
or an oak. Surn o summer? If tion
of t yet, y
ute? e be shipwrecked on a vain
reality. S a heaven of blue glass over
ourselves, t is done ill at
true et?
tist in ty of Kouroo wo
strive after perfection. One day it came into o make a
staff. in an imperfect ime is an
ingredient, but into a perfect ime does not enter, o
s in all respects, though I should do
notantly to t for
it s be made of unsuitable
material; and as ed stick after stick, his
friends gradually deserted heir works and
died, but older by a moment. his singleness of purpose
and resolution, and ed piety, endowed his
knoh
time, time kept out of a distance
because overcome ock in
all respects suitable ty of Kouroo was a hoary ruin, and he
sat on one of its mounds to peel tick. Before
ty of t an end, and
of tick e t of t
race in time he had
smootaff Kalpa ar;
and ere on th precious
stones, Braimes. But why do I
stay to mention troke to
suddenly expanded before tonished
artist into t of all tions of Brahma. he had made
a neem in making a staff, a h full and fair
proportions; in ies had
passed aheir places.
And now ill fres ,
t, for ime had been an
illusion, and t no more time han is required for a
single scintillation from to fall on and inflame
tinder of a mortal brain. terial was pure, and
han wonderful?
No face ter ead us so
last as trut part, we
are not ion. ty
of our natures, ourselves into it, and
time, and it is doubly difficult
to get out. In sane moments s, t
is. Say h is
better tom inker, standing on the
gallo;tell tailors,quot;
said ;to remember to make a knot in they
take t stitc; ten.
it and live it; do not s
and call it is not so bad as you are. It looks
poorest -finder s
even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps
, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
tting sun is reflected from the almshouse as
brigs before its
door as early in t see but a quiet mind may live
as contentedly ts, as in a palace.
too me often to live t independent lives
of any. Maybe t enougo receive
misgiving. Most t ted by the
to it oftener t above supporting
t means, wable.
Cultivate poverty like a garden trouble
yourself muco get neurn
turn to t change; we change. Sell
your clots. God you do not
society. If I o a corner of a garret all my
days, like a spider, t as large to me while I
s about me. t;From an army of
take as general, and put it in
disorder; from t abject and vulgar one cannot take
a; Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to
subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all
dissipation. y like darkness reveals ts.
ty and meanness gat;and lo!
creation o our vie; e are often reminded t if there
o still be
tially the same. Moreover, if you are
restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and
neance, you are but confined to t
significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal h
terial starc is
life near t is sest. You are defended from
being a trifler. No man loses ever on a loy
on a ies only. Money
is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
I live in to wion was
poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my
mid-day, tintinnabulum from
. It is temporaries. My neigell
me of tures lemen and ladies, w
notabilities t at table; but I am no more
interested in sucents of times.
terest and tion are about costume and manners
c a goose is a goose still, dress it as you hey
tell me of California and texas, of England and the
ts, all transient and
fleeting pill I am ready to leap from t-yard
like t to come to my bearings -- not walk
in procession to
to live
in tless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteentury, but
stand or sit tfully w goes by. are men
celebrating? ttee of arrangements, and
a speec of
ter is or. I love to tle, to
gravitate to rongly and rigtracts
me -- not ry to weig
suppose a case, but take t is; to travel th I
can, and t on affords me no
satisfaction to commerce to spring an arc a solid
foundation. Let us not play at kittly-benders. there is a solid
bottom everyraveller asked the
som. t it had.
But presently travellers o ths, and he
observed to t;I t you said t this bog had a hard
bottom.quot; quot;So it ; anster, quot;but you got
o it yet.quot; So it is he bogs and quicksands of
society; but kno. Only ,
said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good. I be
one of to mere lath and
plastering; sucs. Give me a
me feel for t depend on the
putty. Drive a nail so fait you can
and tisfaction -- a
he Muse. So will
her
rivet in the work.
Ratrut
at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and
obsequious attendance, but sincerity and trut; and I
aality was as
cold as t t to freeze
talked to me of the
vintage; but I t of an older, a newer, and purer wine, of a
more glorious vintage, , and could not buy.
tyle, t;entertainmentquot; pass for
not in his
ed like a man incapacitated for ality. there
was a man in my neigree. his
manners ruly regal. I ster had I called on
him.
in our porticoes practising idle and musty
virtues, ? As if one o
begin to hoe his
potatoes; and in ternoon go forto practise Cian
meekness and cy ! Consider the China
pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. tion
inclines a little to congratulate itself on being t of an
illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome,
ts long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and
science and literature isfaction. the Records of
ties, and t Men!
It is templating ue. quot;Yes, we have
done great deeds, and sung divine songs, w; --
t is, as long as ies and
great men of Assyria -- hful philosophers
and experimentalists one of my readers who has
yet lived a hs in
tch, we have
not seen teen-year locust yet in Concord. e are
acquainted
delved six feet beneathe surface, nor leaped as many
above it. e kno where we are. Beside, we are sound asleep
nearly ime. Yet eem ourselves wise, and have an
establisruly, hinkers, we
are ambitious spirits! As I stand over t crahe
pine needles on t floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself
from my sig will chose humble
ts, and bide its , pers
benefactor, and impart to its race some cion, I am
reminded of ter Benefactor and Intelligence t stands over
me t.
t influx of novelty into t
olerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest w kind of
sermons are still listened to in t enligries.
t the burden
of a psalm, sung wang, whe
ordinary and mean. e t we can ches only.
It is said t tisable,
and t ted States are a first-rate po
believe t a tide rises and falls be
tis in his
mind. sort of seventeen-year locust come
out of t of t
framed, like t of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the
wine.
ter in t may rise this
year , and flood the parched
uplands; even tful year, w
all our muskrats. It always dry land where we dwell. I see
far inland tream anciently washed, before
science began to record its fress. Every one ory
iful
bug able of apple-tree
cy years, first
in Connecticut, and afters -- from an egg
deposited in tree many years earlier still, as appeared
by counting t; w
for several weeks, c of an urn. ho
does not feel ion and immortality
strengt beautiful and
winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many
concentric layers of y,
deposited at first in tree,
o ts
omb -- now for years by
tonis round tive board --
may unexpectedly come fort societys most trivial and
ure, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!
I do not say t Jo
sucer of t morrow wime can
never make to da our eyes is darkness
to us. Only t day dao where is more
day to da a morning star.