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The “ WOOLLA HIIA HEEMIT ’’—contributions from whose pen have from time to time appeared in the
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Fix this textA HISTOEICAL SKETCH OF THE MIND OF AN HONEST MAN, STEIJGGLING TO OTJNT
Fix this textEELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, AND LITEKARY OBSTACLES.
Fix this textThe following original Lines are designed as its Introduction, as expressive of the General
Fix this textof the Book and temperament of the author :
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Fix this textHow grand are the conceptions of well ordered minds that I I court no smiles, and fear no frowns ■ but a] it -itted
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Fix this textOn prejudices as men do their dreams when they awake, | Alike unnoticed and unknown—a stranger in the land •
Fix this textAnd soar from types and symbols to sublimities that lie | Mankind are wretchedly deceived, and if they martyrize
Fix this textAbove the dim old sounding shades of this world’s history I ! The bard that dares to tell them so, I brave the sacrifice '
Fix this textDisburthened of the sacerdotal mummeries of yore, I Away with pseudo titles which in mystery began— ’
Fix this text1 hey learn, what books have failed to teach the nations,— 1 turn my back on teachers that disgrace the name of man »
Fix this textWhat have they all achieved? What will their prowess
Fix this textAnd Nature s God is pleased to see His creature, man, up- yet perform ?
Fix this text™ I ? se , . . .. . Ask questions inlaijd-driven, like gulls before an ocean-
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Fix this textBut ignorance of intellect and impotence of power AH honest hearts recoil from the pollution which appeal's
Fix this textAre traceable throughout the race unto the present hour: Behind the stage-effect of scenes that Public Folly cheers »
Fix this textOld refuges of lies are still the popular conceit, DegenTate times ! one man, at least, defies your bonds of
Fix this textWhile Superstition sits enthron’d, with empires at her feet! shame,
Fix this textPolitical adventurers, like most of pious name, * And looks to’ future ages for an honorable fame !
Fix this text"?•' 0 Lmmna which only shine with phosphorescent flame ; Thus having soul to stand alone in sov’reiguty of thought
Fix this textIhe patriotic boast is but a ruse to gain some end, Amid opposing legions, he is not a thing of nought •
Fix this textAnd Blackest Purpose often claims to be “ The People’s No ! he is self-esteemed ! What more could independence
Fix this textLow Cunning, with its brazen face and rotten heart, pre- That smiles in scorn of tinsel called superiority ?
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Fix this textWhere modest wealth of intellect and moral grandeur fails. When Human Nature grows ashamed of bein°- knave or
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Fix this textConventionalities, alas, too destitute of soul! Of Playboys making merry rhymes by w ay of epitaph.
Fix this textGigantic mind, preferring peace, must miserably yield ’Tis heav’nward knowledge self to know, when the expand-
Fix this textAll right to thmk, or keep its thoughts in cowardice con- ing soul 1
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Fix this textOutspoken Truth is Treason, and attempts to know* the Within lies true philosophy wrapp’d up in spirit-things
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Fix this textAnd wherefore of a dogma, are suppress d by hue and cry ! I know no other Temple than the Universe, wherein
Fix this textAh . where is Moral Courage, that we scarcely see its signs To offer prayer and praise, or seek deliverance from sin—
Fix this textAmong the noted ones of earth, your statesmen and divines? Neither to any ritual my pure devotion bends
Fix this textTis hooted by monopolists, and fugitive would be Other than daily need demands, and Reason recommends.
Fix this textBut for the hiding-place it seeks in man’s futurity 1 Clothed with infinity, I kneel upon a speck of time
Fix this textMy spirit cannot stoop so ignominiously low Adoring the Eternal, and absorbed in thought sublime 1
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Fix this textG entlemen to whom this Prospectus is forwarded will confer a favour by acting pro tern, as Honorary Agents. Should
Fix this textNew South Wales withhold the patronage claimed by its Hermit, n’importe, he will find it elsewhere. A list of
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