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Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
 Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious 
the world of God within us. There read more 
 Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious 
the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there 
lies the poet's native land. 
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
 We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of 
course, powerful muscles, but no read more 
 We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of 
course, powerful muscles, but no personality. 
 In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its 
original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial 
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 In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its 
original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial 
objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely 
urging the manufacture. 
 For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought 
with it the means of seeing."
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 For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought 
with it the means of seeing."
   - Thomas Carlyle, 
 Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
 Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.  
 Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
 Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. 
 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. 
The mind that grows could not predict the times, read more 
 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. 
The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the 
mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into 
every individual.