The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860

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Various. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860

THE LAWS OF BEAUTY

FOUND AND LOST

AN EXPERIENCE

ABOUT THIEVES

THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES; AND WHAT CAME OF IT

THE PORTRAIT

A LEAF

THE LITTLE CREED

THE WHITE PATER NOSTER

COME SI CHIAMA?

BARDIC SYMBOLS

HUNTING A PASS: A SKETCH OF TROPICAL ADVENTURE

PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER I

KEPLER

PLEASURE-PAIN

I

II

III

IV

V

THE PROFESSOR'S STORY

CHAPTER VII

LOST BELIEFS

THE MEXICANS AND THEIR COUNTRY

REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES

RECENT AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS

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And he sold his birth-right unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles.

GEN. xxv. 33, 34.

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"On the contrary, we exchange vague, speculative mystifications for definite, tangible fact. In America we have too much reality, too many iron and steam facts, to waste much time over mere thinking. That, Sir, does for a sleepy old country, begging your pardon, like yours; but for one that has the world's destiny in its hands,—that is laying iron foot-paths from the Atlantic to the Pacific for future civilization to take an evening stroll along to see the sun set,—that is converting black wool into white cotton, to clothe the inhabitants of Borrioboolagha,—that is trading, farming, electing, governing, fighting, annexing, destroying, building, puffing, blowing, steaming, racing, as our young two-hundred-year-old is,—we must work, we must act, and think afterwards. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."

"And what," I said, "when hand-and-foot-action shall have ceased? will you then allow some play for thought-action?"

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