Embrace its color, shape, and use, whole and individual

conceptions;

It shall read or hear of crime, and cast itself into the commission;

It shall note a generous deed, and glow for a moment as the doer;

It shall imagine pride or pleasure, treading on the edges of temptation;

Or heed of God and of his Christ, and grow transformed to glory.

Therefore, it is wise and well to guide the mind aright, That its aptness may be sensitive to good, and shrink with apathy from evil :

For use will mold and mark it, or nonusage dull and blunt it ;

So to talk of spirit by analogy with substance;

And analogy is a truer guide, than many teacher tell of, Similitudes are scattered round, to help us, not to hurt

us;

Moses, in his every type, and the Greater than Moses, in his parables,

Preach, in terms that all may learn, the philosophic lessons of analogy:

And here, in a topic immaterial, the likeness of analogy is just;

By habits, knit the nerves of mind, and train the gladiator shrewdly:

For thought shall strengthen thinking, and imagery speed imagination,

Until thy spiritual inmate shall have swelled to the giant of Otranto.

Nevertheless, heed well, that this Athlete, growing in thy brain,

Be a wholesome Genius, not a cursed Afrite:

And see thou discipline his strength, and point his aim discreetly;

Feed him on humility and holy things, weaned from covetous desires;

Hour by hour, and day by day, ply him with ideas of excellence,

Dragging forth the evil but to loathe, as a Spartan's drunken Helot;

And win, by gradual allurements, the still expanding soul,

To rise from a contemplated universe, even to the Hand that made it.

A common mind perceiveth not beyond his eyes and

ears:

The pailings of the park of sense enthral this captured roebuck:

And still, though fettered in the flesh, he doth not feel his chains,

Externals are the world to him, and circumstance his atmosphere.

Therefore tangible pleasures are enough for the animal

man;

He is swift to speak and slow to think, dreading his own dim conscience;

And solitude is terrible, and exile worse than death,
He cannot dwell apart, nor breathe at a distance from

the crowd,

But minds of nobler stamp, and chiefest the mint-marked of heaven,

Walk independent by themselves, freely manumitted of externals:

They carry viands with them, and need no refreshment by the way,

Nor drink of other wells than their own inner fountain. Strange shall it seem how little such a man will lean upon the accidents of life,

He is winged and needeth not a staff; if it break, he shall not fall:

And lightly perchance doth he remember the stale trivialifies around him,

He liveth in the realm of thought, beyond the world of

things:

These are but transient Matter, and himself enduring

Spirit:

And worldliness will laugh to scorn that sublimated wisdom.

His eyes may open on a prison-cell, but the bare walls glow with imagery;

His ears may be filled with execration, but are listening to the music of sweet thoughts;

He may dwell in a hovel with a hero's heart, and canopy his penury with peace,

For mind is a kingdom to the man, who gathereth his pleasure from Ideas.

of Lames.

Adam gave the name, when the Lord hath made his creature,

For God led them in review, to see what man would call

them.

As they struck his senses, he proclaimed their sounds, A name for the distinguishing of each, a numeral by which it should be known :

He specified the partridge by her cry, and the forest prowler by his roaring,

The tree by its use, and the flower by its beauty, and everything according to its truth.

There is an arbitrary name; whereunto the idea atteacheth;

And there is a reasonable name, linking its fitness to

Yet shall these twain run in parallel courses,

Neither shalt thou readily discern the habit from the

nature.

For mind is apt, and quick to wed ideas and names together,

Nor stoppeth its perception to be curious of priorities; And there is but little in the sound, as some have vainly fancied,

The same tone in different tongues shall be suitable to opposite ideas:

Yea, take an ensample in thine own; consider similar words:

How various and contrary the thoughts those kindred names produce :

A house shall seem a flitting word, to call a roomy dwelling,

Yet there is a like propriety in the small smooth sound,

a mouse:

Mountain, as if of a necessity, is a word both mighty and majestic,

What heed ye then of Fountain ?— flowing silver in the

sun.

Many a fair flower is burdened with preposterous appellatives,

Which the wiser simplicity of rustics entitled by its beauties;

And often the conceit of science, loving to be thought cosmopolite,

Shall mingle names of every clime, alike obscure to each. There is wisdom in calling a thing fitly; name should note particulars

Through a character obvious to all men, and worthy of their instant acceptation.

The herbalist had a simple cause for every word upon

catalogue,

his

But now the mouth of Botany is filled with empty

sounds;

And many a peasant hath an answer on his tongue, concerning some vexed flower,

Shrewder than the centipede phrase, wherewithal philosophers invest it.

For that, the foolishness of pride, and flatteries of cringing homage,

Strew with chaff the threshing-floors of science; names perplex them all :

The entomologist, who hath pried upon an insect, straightway shall endow it with his name;

It had many qualities and marks of note, — but in chief, a vain observer;

The geographer shall journey to the pole, through biting frost and desolation,

And, for some simple patron's sake, shall name that land the happy:

The fossilist hath found a bone, the rib of some huge lizard,

And forthwith standeth to it sponsor, to tack himself on reptile immortalities:

The sportsman, hunting at the Cape, found some strangehorned antelope,

The spots are new, the fame is cheap, and so his name

is added.

Thus, obscurities encumber knowledge, even by the vanity of men

Who play into each other's hand the game of giving

names.

Various are the names of men, and drawn from different wells;

Aspects of body, or characters of mind, the creature's first idea:

And some have sprung of trades, and some of dignities or office ;

Other some added to a father's, and yet more growing from a place :