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We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
We are executive in ourselves—We are sufficient
in the variety of ourselves,
We are the most beautiful to ourselves, and in ourselves,
Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are
beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.

3. Have you thought there could be but a single
Supreme?
There can be any number of Supremes—One does
not countervail another, any more than one eyesight
countervails another, or one life countervails
another.

4. All is eligible to all,
All is for individuals—All is for you,
No condition is prohibited, not God's or any,
If one is lost, you are inevitably lost.

5. All comes by the body—only health puts you rapport
with the universe.

6. Produce great persons, the rest follows.

7. How dare a sick man, or an obedient man, write
poems for These States?
Which is the theory or book that, for our purposes, is
not diseased?

8. Piety and conformity to them that like!
Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like!