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What we ape worth : universali « m , independent of thftt mailptth serving ptinbiple , is like him who trades with thfc tveahb-tff others ; he is apt to draw too freeiy on funds he has no feskr of exhausting , and to indulge in an expenditure often profuse and profitless .
The times and the triumphs of autocrats and aristocracies . ture passing away ; let us not create a power less tangible and me # e irresponsible ; let us not establish a sort of paper-currency in morals . The few must succumb to the many , but it can only be by the many holding true power with the same tenacity that the few have held false power .
Co-operation cannot create individuality , but may Corrupt , even cancel it . Individuality is the power by which we grasp that which we would prove , and grapple that which we would possess ; and there is much that we must prove and possess individually :
by it we strike down opposition , and vault over obstacles ; and much is there that alone we must encounter and overcome : by it the night of solitude and even of sorrow , and the waste of p overty , have blazed with song and science . If sometimes it leacfe ifs to stand aloof froiii our fellows , and rather owe all , however little , to
ourselves , than anything , however great , to others , it aktei endows us with the power to serve , to save , to give ; for of all the efficient , the faithful , the unflinching , they are the ihost so who are most perfectly possessed by the spirit of sfclfc dependence .
It is that spirit which makes us say to tyrants , What Would ye ? and to tortures , What are ye ? Everything sinks or shrivels before the self-sustained courage which can endure to live , and dare to die , any how but degraded . Individuality is the pedestal of genius . Talent , science , sklH , may co-operate , but genius is essentially concentrative . I have
heard the lovers of the co-operative system extend their views to men of genius , and luxuriate in visions of joint-stock companies for the production of plays , poetry , and every species of literature . Beaumont and Fletcher certainly start to recollection , and telt us such things have been—may be . Would that we might fcttll their spirits back and question them . I fancy that they would tell t * s that the partnership was a sort of sun-and-moon matter ; that ^ fhe
one was always down when the other was up , and that it was only in the twilight passages of mediocrity that the poets worked together . When Newton sat wrapped in the robes of abstraction , who could have borne to see them twitched by busy combination ? ! Abstraction is one of the luxuries of mind ; blessed among men are they capable of its enjoyment . Let the aristocrat , with Ms poor pride , go look at them ^ -aee where they sit , conscious afoire of God and his great gift , their heavenward g enius !*—fctewlHw *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/35/
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