Excerpt from An Address Before the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society: At Its Annual MeetingsNature obeys without consciously perceiving him, bad men may perceive him, and yet disobey, but each man is able to obey not less than perceive, and the truly good man does. The wisdom of the universe shines, sunlike, upon the soul, he rejoices in the vision. The spirit of the universe breathes, a vital air, over and into the heart, he takes it in, and gives it forth as life and power. This is the grand dis tinction of man. And always the truest man is he who most completely receives and fulfils the wonder~ ful idea. His is an infinite humility, not only when he speaks words of prayer does he say that God is all, himself as nothing, but his whole life is free self-abandonment to the absorbing presence. All the time, out in the streets, there in the shop, in the midst of his family, every-where, he is living in and from that secret and closed recess, where the spirit of man is reached and renewed by the spirit of God, and so the universe is radiant with truth, nay, grows up around him as larger temple of which he is shrine. Such is man, not in the apostacy and sin which deform his existence, but in the genuine nature which images the Eternal.From these two principles we advance to certain practical ideas - The worth of our nature - The sym pathy and cooperation which we owe one to another.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.