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have and to possess. The nature allotted to all other creatures, within
laws appointed by ourselves, restrains them. Thou, restrained by no
narrow bounds, according to thy own free will, in whose power we have
placed thee, shalt define thy nature for thyself. We have set thee
midmost the world, that thence thou mightest more conveniently survey
whatsoever is in the world. Nor have we made thee either heavenly or
earthly, mortal or immortal, to the end that thou, being, as it were,
thy own free maker and moulder, shouldst fashion thyself in what form
may like thee best. Thou shalt have power to decline unto the lower or
brute creatures. Thou shalt have power to be reborn unto the higher or
divine, according to the sentence of thy intellect.' Thus to Man, at his
birth, the Father gave seeds of all variety and germs of every form of
life."

That is near enough to the Nature of Man for present purposes.

"Teach us man's worth, that we may know it,
Who, being alone in power to lift
Above his nature, sinks below it!"

BROADCHALKE, _7th July_, 1918.

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