of the heart itself, nay,
the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new
infinity on every side. It inspires in man an infallible trust. He has
not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true, and may in
that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears,
and adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private
riddles. He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so
universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable
projects of mortal condition in its flood. He believes that he cannot
escape from his good. The things that are really for thee gravitate to
thee. You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your
mind need not. If you do not find him, will you not acquiesce that it is
best you should not find him? for there is a power, which, as it is in
you, is in him also, and could therefore very well bring you together,
if it were for the best. You are preparing with eagerness to go and
render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you, the
love of men and the hope of fame. Has it not occurred to you that you
have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from
going? O, believe, as thou livest, that every sound that is spoken over
the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
Every proverb, every book, every byword that belongs to thee for aid or
comfort, shall surely come home through open or winding passages. Every
friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in
thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the
heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not
an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls
uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men, as the water of
the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

Let man then learn the revelation of all nature and all thought to his
heart; this, namely; that the Highest dwells with him; that the sources
of nature are in his own mind, if the sentiment of duty is there. But if
he would know what the great God speaketh, he must 'go into his closet
and shut the door,' as Jesus said. God will not make himself manifest to
cowards. He must greatly listen to himself, withdrawing himself from all
the accents of other men's devotion. Even their p