e again; or is this death-fit very
death?--Goeth's Duke of Weimar. Doom of Idleness. To sit idle
aloft, like absurd Epicurus'-gods, a poor life for a man.
Independence 'lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye:' Rejection
of sham Superiors, the needful preparation for obedience to
_real_ Superiors.

Chap. VII _The gifted_

Tumultuous anarchy calmed by noble effort into fruitful
sovereignty. Mammon, like Fire, the usefulest of servants, if
the frightfulest of masters. Souls to whom the omnipotent guinea
is, on the whole, an impotent guinea: Not a May-game is this
man's life; but a battle and stern pilgrimage: God's justice,
human Nobleness, Veracity and Mercy, the essence of his very
being. What a man of Genius is. The Highest 'Man of Genius.'
Genius, the clearer presence of God Most High in a man. Of
intrinsic Valetism you cannot, with whole Parliaments to help
you, make a heroism.

Chap. VIII. _The Didactic_

One preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade
all persons. Repentant Captains of Industry: A Chactaw Fighter
becomes a Christian Fighter. Doomsday in the afternoon. The
'Christianity' that cannot get on without a minimum of Four-
thousand-five-hundred, will give place to something better that
can. Beautiful to see the brutish empire of Mammon cracking
everywhere: A strange, chill, almost ghastly dayspring in
Yankeeland itself. Here as there, Light is coming into the
world. Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil: 'Impossible,'
where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order,
can have no place in the brave man's dictionary. Not on Ilion's
or Latium's plains; on far other plains and places henceforth
can noble deeds be done. The last Partridge of England shot and
ended: Aristocracies with beards on their chins. O, it is
great, and there is no other greatness: To make some nook of
god's Creation a little fruitfuler; to make some human hearts a
little wiser, manfuler, happier: It is work for a God!

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