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[Kears C. <ma...@pa...>]

O add one jot or tittle to the native virtue of any

human spirit. It is always, however, less important for us to know what
another thinks upon any

high matter than to know what

is our own deepest and inevitable thought concerning it; for, as the
man himself thinketh, not as another thinketh for him, so is he: his
own thoughts are forces and engines in his nature; those of any other
are at best
but candidates for these profound effects. I propose, therefore, that
we throw open

the whole question of man's benefit to man by means of words.

Let us inquire--if possible, with somewhat of courage and vigor--what
are the limits and what the laws of instructive communication. And our
first discovery will be that such communication has adamantine
limitations. The off-hand impression of most persons would probably be
that we are able to make literal conveyance
of our thought. But, in truth, one could as soon convey the life
out of his veins into the veins of another as transfer from his own
mind to that of another
any