I am of a stitution so general, that it sorts and sympathizeth with all things, I have no antipathy, or rather idiosyncra any thing. Those national repugnancies do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch -- Religio Medici.
That the author of the Religio Medici, mounted upon the airy stilts of abstra, versant about notional and jectural essences; in whose categories of Being the possible took the upper hand of the actual; should have overlooked the imperti individualities of such poor cretions as mankind, is not much to be admired. It is rather to be wo, that in the genus of animals he should have desded to distinguish that species at all. For myself-earth.hound aered to the se of my activities, --
Standing oh, not rapt above the sky,
I fess that I do feel the differenankind, national or individual, to an uhy excess. I look with no indifferent eye upon things or persons. Whatever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste; or when o bees indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices -- made up of likings and dislikings -- veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies. In a certain sense, I hope it may be said of me that I am a lover of my species. I feel for all indifferently, but I ot feel towards all equally. The more purely-English wont that expresses sympathy will better explain my meaning. I be a friend to a worthy man, who upon another at ot be my mate or fellow. I ot like all people alike. *
[Footnote] * I would be uood as fining myself to the subjeperfect sympathies To nations or classes of men there be no diretipathy. There may *be individuals born and stellated so opposite to another individual nature, that the same sphere ot hold them. I have met with my moral antipodes, and believe the story of two persoing (who never saw one another before in their lives) and instantly fighting.
-- We by proof find there should be
`Twixt man and man su antipathy,
That though he show no just reason why
For any former wrong or injury,
either find a blemish in his fame,
Nht in face or feature justly blame,
challenge or accuse him of no evil,
Yet notwithstanding hates him as a devil.
The lines are from old Heywoods "Hierarchie of Angels," and he subjoins a curious story in firmation, of a Spaniard who attempted to assassinate a King Ferdinand of Spain, and being put to the rack could give no other reason for the deed but an ie antipathy which he had taken to the first sight of the King.
-- The cause which to that apelld him
Was, he neer loved him since he first beheld him.
I have been trying all my life to like Sen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They ot like me -- and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it. There is something more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one a first sight. There is an order of imperfetellects (under which mine must be tent to rank) whi its stitution is essentially anti-Caledonian. The owners of the sort of faculties I allude to, have minds rather suggestive than prehehey have no preteo much clearness or precision in their ideas, or in their manner of expressing them. Their intellectual wardrobe (to fess fairly) has few whole pieces in it. They are tent with fragments and scattered pieces of Truth. She presents no full front to them -- a feature or