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ASSURANCES.
I NEED no assurances—I am a man who is pre-
occupied, of his own Soul;
occupied, of his own Soul;
I do not doubt that from under the feet, and beside
the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now
looking faces I am not cognizant of—calm and
actual faces;
the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now
looking faces I am not cognizant of—calm and
actual faces;
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the
world are latent in any iota of the world;
world are latent in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes
are limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless;
are limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless;
I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs,
play their swift sports through the air on pur-
pose—and that I shall one day be eligible to
do as much as they, and more than they;
play their swift sports through the air on pur-
pose—and that I shall one day be eligible to
do as much as they, and more than they;
I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on,
millions of years;
millions of years;
I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and ex-
teriors have their exteriors—and that the eye-
sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing
another hearing, and the voice another voice;
teriors have their exteriors—and that the eye-
sight has another eye-sight, and the hearing
another hearing, and the voice another voice;
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of
young men are provided for—and that the
deaths of young women, and the deaths of little
children, are provided for;
young men are provided for—and that the
deaths of young women, and the deaths of little
children, are provided for;
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the
horrors of them—no matter whose wife, child,
husband, father, lover, has gone down—are
provided for, to the minutest points;
horrors of them—no matter whose wife, child,
husband, father, lover, has gone down—are
provided for, to the minutest points;
I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig-
nance, are provided for;
nance, are provided for;
I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the remain-
der of the earth, politics, freedom, degrada-
tions, are carefully provided for;
der of the earth, politics, freedom, degrada-
tions, are carefully provided for;
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen,
any where, at any time, is provided for, in the
inherences of things.
any where, at any time, is provided for, in the
inherences of things.