Higher Laws
t a reproach
t man is a carnivorous animal? true, he can and does live, in a
great measure, by preying on ot this is a miserable
s, or slaughtering
lambs, may learn -- and or of his
race and
ice may be, I
t it is a part of tiny of ts gradual
improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage
tribes off eating eacact
he more civilized.
If one listens to test but constant suggestions of his
genius, rue, to remes, or
even insanity, it may lead t way, as he grows more
resolute and faitest assured
objection h prevail over
ts and customs of mankind. No man ever followed his
genius till it misled were bodily weakness,
yet per to be
regretted, for ty to higher principles.
If t are suc you greet th joy, and
life emits a fragrance like flo-scented herbs, is more
elastic, more starry, more immortal -- t is your success. All
nature is your congratulation, and you arily to
bless yourself. test gains and values are fart from
being appreciated. e easily come to doubt if t. e soon
forget t reality. Pers most
astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. the
true of my daily life is someangible and
indescribable as tints of morning or evening. It is a little
star-dust caug of tched.
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish;