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For the rest, I have to object still (what you will
call objecting against the Law of Nature) that we find you a
Speaker indeed, but as it were a _Soliloquizer_ on the eternal
mountain-tops only, in vast solitudes where men and their affairs
lie all hushed in a very dim remoteness; and only the man and
the stars and the earth are visible,--whom, so fine a fellow
seems he, we could perpetually punch into, and say, "Why won't
you come and help us then? We have terrible need of one man like
you down among us! It is cold and vacant up there; nothing
paintable but rainbows and emotions; come down, and you shall do
life-pictures, passions, facts,--which _transcend_ all thought,
and leave it stuttering and stammering! To which he answers that
he won't, can't, and doesn't want to (as the Cockneys have it):
and so I leave him, and say, "You Western Gymnosophist! Well, we
can afford one man for that too. But--!--By the bye, I ought to
say, the sentences are very _brief;_ and did not, in my sheet
reading, always entirely cohere for me.


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