16 March :
16 Mar 1894 : Letter to Mrs G W Hale : Something should turn up, bad or
good. I have enough now to pay my passage back and a little
sight-seeing to boot. As to my plans of work, I am fully convinced that
at the rate it is progressing I will have to come back four or five
times to put it in any shape.
As to informing others and doing good that way, I have failed to persuade myself that I have
really anything to convey to the world. So I am very happy just now and
quite at my ease. With almost nobody in this vast house and a cigar
between my lips, I am dreaming just now and philosophising upon that
work fever which was upon me. It is all nonsense. I am nothing, the
world is nothing, the Lord alone is the only worker. We are simply tools
in His hands etc., etc., etc.
16 Mar 1896 : New Tribune : Unity in
variety is the plan of the universe. Just as we are all men, yet we are
all separate. We find then, that if by the idea of a universal religion
is meant one set of doctrines should be believed by all mankind, it is
impossible, it can never be, any more than there will be a time when all
faces will be the same. We must not seek that all of us should think
alike, like Egyptian mummies in a museum, looking at each other without
thought to think. It is this difference of thought, this
differentiation, losing of the balance of thought, which is the very
soul of our progress, the soul of thought.
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