erty,
to escape the rapacity of the Pacha, and reserve all their display of
wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.

As it is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life. It is
adult already in the infant man. In my dealing with my child, my Latin
and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much
soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine,
one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him
by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will and act for the
soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes
looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we
see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people
ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you
know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we
see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake. It
was a grand sentence of Emanuel Swedenborg, which would alone indicate
the greatness of that man's perception,--"It is no proof of a man's
understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be
able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is
false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence." In the book I
read, the good thought returns to me, as every truth will, the image
of the whole soul. To the bad thought which I find in it, the same soul
becomes a discerning, separating sword, and lops it away. We are wiser
than we know. If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act
entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular
thing, and every thing, and every man. For the Maker of all things and
all persons stands behind us and casts his dread omniscience through us
over things.

But beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the
individual's experience, it also reveals truth. And here we should
seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence, and to speak with a
worthier, loftier strain of that advent. For the soul's communication
of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give
somewhat from itself, but it gives itself, or passes into and becomes
that man whom it enlightens; or, in proportion to that truth he
receives, it takes him to itself.

We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its ma