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sumus ! In Man the centripetal and individualizing ten- 

 dency of all Nature is itself concentred and individualized 

 he is a revelation of Nature ! Henceforward, he is 

 referred to himself, delivered up to his own charge ; and 

 he who stands the most on himself, and stands the firmest, 

 is the truest, because the most individual, Man. In social 

 and political life this acme is inter-dependence ; in moral 

 life it is independence ; in intellectual life it is genius. 

 Nor does the form of polarity, which has accompanied the 

 law of individuation up its whole ascent, desert it here. 

 As the height, so the depth. The intensities must be at 

 once opposite and equal. As the liberty, so must be the 

 reverence for law. As the independence, so must be the 

 service and the submission to the Supreme Will ! As the 

 ideal genius and the originality, in the same proportion 

 must be the resignation to the real world, the sympathy 

 and the inter-communion with Nature. In the conciliating 

 mid-point, or equator, does the Man live, and only by its 

 equal presence in both its poles can that life be mani- 

 fested ! 



If it had been possible, within the prescribed limits of 

 this essay, to have deduced the philosophy of Life syn- 

 thetically, the evidence would have been carried over from 

 section to section, and the quod erat demonstrandum 

 at the conclusion of one section would reappear as the 

 principle of the succeeding the goal of the one would be 

 the starting-post of the other. Positions arranged in my 

 own mind, as intermediate and organic links of adminis- 

 tration, must be presented to the reader in the first in- 

 stance, at least, as a mere hypothesis, Instead of 



