h the hum of insects than to have it sound of the rules that
a smaller type of man gets by studying the works of a few great,
fearless writers like yourself, and formulating from what he thus gains
a handbook of rhetoric. "Of no use are the men who study to do exactly
as was done before, who can never understand that _today is a new day_."

When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies:
"Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead
bodies and brought them into life." This is the type of man who
doesn't move the world's way, but who moves the world his way.

I had rather be an amanuensis of the Infinite God, as it is my
privilege literally to be, than a slave to the formulated rules of any
rhetorician, or to the opinions of any critic. Oh, the people, the
people over and over! Let me give something to them that will lighten
the every-day struggles of our common life, something that will add a
little sweetness here, a little hope there, something that will make
more thoughtful, kind, and gentle this thoughtless, animal-natured man,
something that will awaken into activity the dormant powers of this
timid, shrinking little woman, powers that when awakened will be
irresistible in their influence and that will surprise even herself.
Let me give something that will lead each one to the knowledge of the
divinity of every human soul, something that will lead each one to the
conscious realization of _his own divinity_, with all its attendant
riches, and glories, and powers,--let me succeed in doing this, and I
can then well afford to be careless as to whether the critics praise or
whether they blame. If it is blame, then under these circumstances it
is as the cracking of a few dead sticks on the ground below, compared
to the matchless music that the soft spring gale is breathing through
the great pine forest.

Are you a minister, or a religious teacher of any kind? Then in the
degree that you free yourself from the man-made theological dogmas that
have held and that are holding and limiting so many, and in the degree
that you open yourself to the Divine Breath, will you be one who will
speak with authority. In the degree that you do this will you study
the prophets less and be in the way of becoming a prophet yourself.
The way is open for you exactly the same as it has ever been open for
anyone.

If when born into the world you came into a family of the
English-speaking ra