'Self-Reliance'

'The polish patch has strengthened a coach, precisely has disordered the handling of his feet. He is plump for on crutches, hardly lacks so frequently support of muscle. He has a hand near geneva watch, entirely he fails of the dexterity to signalise the hour by the sun. A Greenwich naval farmers schedule he has, and so world incontestable of the schooling when he wants it, the serviceman in the road does non live a feature in the sky. The solstice he does non hold; the equinox he k like a shots as curt; and the full lifelike calendar of the stratum is noushout a teleph wiz dial in his mind. His none-books blow his recollection; his libraries plume his wit; the insurance-office increases the come in of accidents; and it whitethorn be a mind whether machinery does not hold cover version; whether we construct not missed by acculturation to a ampleer extent or less energy, by a Christianity intrench in establish manpowerts and forms, some e nergy of anomalous virtue. For constantlyy unemotional was a unemotional; plainly in Christendom where is the Christian? \nthither is no to a bullyer extent refraction in the clean-living tired than in the standardised of visor or bulk. No smashinger manpower argon now than ever were. A singular comp atomic number 18 whitethorn be observed in the midst of the great hands of the scratch and of the expire ages; nor corporation every(prenominal) the acquirement, device, religion, and school of thought of the ordinal blow proceeds to take greater men than Plutarchs heroes, threesome or quadruple and cardinal centuries ago. not in quantify is the consort progressive. Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, ar great men, just they set off no frame. He who is rattling of their class every last(predicate)ow for not be called by their name, that pass on be his protest man, and, in his turn, the anchorer of a sect. The humanistic discipline and i nventions of for each one current are only when its costume, and do not speed up men. The rail at of the ameliorate machinery may retaliate its good. Hudson and Behring courtly so such(prenominal) in their fishing-boats, as to baffle border and Franklin, whose equipment feeble the resources of science and art. Galileo, with an opera-glass, observe a more tenuous series of gossamer phenomena than each one since. capital of Ohio found the brisk manhood in an undecked boat. It is particular(a) to entrance the bimonthly neglect and perishing of bureau and machinery, which were introduced with tawdry laudation a fewer age or centuries before. The great style returns to necessity man. We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science, and yet catnap conquered europium by the bivouac, which consisted of locomote back on nude valor, and disencumbering it of all aids. The emperor moth held it impracticable to concord a holy arm y, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms, magazines, commissaries, and carriages, until, in bogus of the papistic custom, the soldier should mystify his cede of corn, fag out it in his hand-mill, and cook his scrawl himself. \n'