The Gentleman of the Old School, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Gentleman of the Old School, Vol. 1: A Tale The relation between the moral and physical universe is so close, man's being and his fate are so linked to all the material objects that surround him, that, when I re-member one of the speculative visions of my youth, which I looked upon in after years as nothing but an idle folly, I find that it may be true as an image, though it be false as a fact. The fancy I allude to was, that there is a sort of involution of soul and body, one within the other, throughout all nature, each moral agent composed of many parts, comprised in its material form, each acting upon, and suffering through, the other. Man, according to this hypothesis, had his soul, with all its various feelings, comprised in the earthly tabernacle of his mortal frame, the earth, with all its mass of manifold material qualities and capabilities, was but the body assigned to the great existing mass of human intellect and feeling, which, in the aggregate, was in fact the soul appointed to animate, to employ, and to govern it. The planetary system in which we move, as a speck in the ocean of space, was another body animated and impelled along its destiny by another spirit, and was in itself comprised within some other great series of material and intellectual parts, forming another great body, and another great mass of mind, and so on, till the whole was embraced in infinity of power, of might, and of wisdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.