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fol. 43v    'Truth not easily Discerned'  (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.    )
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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     #45#The result{s} of habit{s} and education - & accident - perhaps purposely worn
     - {a gloze of <manner> <c>light and}
     perhaps unconsciously assumed - perhaps totally contrary to all that is rooted
15   & real in the mind that it conceals -
     #46#When all hypocrisy - & all habit - and all petty & passing emotion -
     the ice   -  and the bank  -  & the foam . of the immortal river -
     were shivered and broken and swallowed up in the awakening of
     its inward strength - when the call and claim of some deep & divine
20   motive had brought into visible being
      
      
      
fol. 44r	 'Truth not easily Discerned'  (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.147)
      
      
     flash of the eye - and the peculiar <curve> {radiance} of the lip -  seen on him only in
     	                                      his
     hours of high<est> mental excitement ,       None but his friends would know
     this -         Another may have given none of his ordinary expressions -
     but one which he wore in the most excited instant of his life - when
 5   all his secret passions  - & all his highest powers - were brought
     into play at once.      None but those who had then seen him   .
     might recognise thisas like .        But which would be the most
     truthful portrait of the man .   The first gives the accidents of
     body - the sport of climate & food - & time, - <the binding of the
10   book> -  which corruption inhabits - and the worm waits for  .   The
     second gives the stamp of the soul upon the flesh - but it is the
     <stamp> soul seen in the emotions which it shares with many .  which
     {may] <one> not {be} characteristic of its essence  .^*   The third has l[?]caught
     the
     trace of <*.*>all that was most hidden and most mighty - ^*  <u<*.*>nknown> those
15   latent forces & feelings which the spirits own* ^ {volition} consciousness could not
     			                                <feel>
     summon <no> {nor its} comprehend - which God only knew - & God only could
     <call forth> {awaken} - the depth and the mystery of its peculiar and separating attributes -
     And so it is with {external} nature - She has a body & a soul like man - but
20   her soul is the Deity .    It is possible to represent the body - without
     the spirit - & this shall be like to those whose senses are only cognizant
     of body -   It is possible to represent the spirit in its ordinary & inferior
      

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