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I prefer to be ignorant of your disease of invention and your debauchery of confused ideas. I know something more powerful. Yes, we men of these parts feed by the continual millions in the most favorable valleys of the earth; and the depth of this immense sea of individuals has kept the form of a family, in an unbroken line from the earliest days. Every man here feels that he is both son and father, among thousands and tens of thousands, and is aware of being held fast by the people around him and the dead below him and the people to come, like a brick in a brick wall. He holds. Every man here knows that he is nothing apart from his composite earth, and outside the miraculous structure of his ancestors. At the point where our forefathers fade, begin the crowds of Gods. He who mediates can measure in his thought the beautiful form and solidity of our eternal tower
