129.What behaved well in the past, or behaves well
to-day, is not such a wonder,
The wonder is, always and always, how can there be
a mean man or an infidel.
130.Endless unfolding of words of ages!
And mine a word of the modern—a word en-masse.
131.A word of the faith that never balks,
One time as good as another time—here or hence-
forward, it is all the same to me.
132.A word of reality—materialism first and last imbuing.
133.Hurrah for positive Science! long live exact demonstration!
Fetch stonecrop, mixt with cedar and branches of
lilac,
This is the lexicographer—this the chemist—this
made a grammar of the old cartouches,
These mariners put the ship through dangerous
unknown seas,
This is the geologist—this works with the scalpel—
and this is a mathematician.
134.Gentlemen! I receive you, and attach and clasp
hands with you,
The facts are useful and real—they are not my
dwelling—I enter by them to an area of the
dwelling.
135.I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and
more the reminder of life,
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