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Show Man's Creative Force. Man's highest virtue Is always as , much as possible to rule external circumstances, cir-cumstances, and as little as possible ! to let himself be ruled by them. Life j lies before us, as a huge quarry he- , fore the architect ; he deserves not the name of architect except, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, .villi the greatest economy, suitableness, suitable-ness, and durability, some form, the pattern Of which originated in his own soul. All things without us nay, I may d. all things wltuin us are mere elements; but deep in the Inmost Shrine Of our nature lies the creative force, which out of these j can produce what they were meant , to be, und which leaves us neither si ep nor rest, till In one wuy or un- I other, altbonl us or within us, this' product has taken shape. (ioethe. |