me to suppose that there to be this inward force peculiar
to each shaping of all bodies that do hold that wondrous
quality of Life. And if that you ask me that I
give example to make clear my thought, I to say that
it doth be reasonable to suppose that the Force or
Spirit of the Human doth be peculiar to the Human,
whether that it to be a Cause of Life, or the Result
of that which hath been evolved out of a Condition.
And whether it to be the one way or the other, you
to know that where this Force or Spirit be found untainted,
there is man; and I to be not opposed to think that
Man doth be constant alway in matters of fundament,
and neither to have been ever truly different; though
something modified in the body and surely, in the
first, all undeveloped in the lovely things of the
spirit, because that there to be no call to these.
Yet, presently, they likewise to come, and to act
upon the flesh with refinings; and likewise, mayhap,
there to be some act of the flesh upon the spirit;
and so to the state of this Age of this our day, and
to that far Age of which I do tell. But development
never to make the Human other than the Human; for the
development to have limits peculiar to the Human.
And surely, it doth appeal to me, that the development
of Man doth lie between two points, that be not wondrous
wide apart; and Man to have power that he arrive very
speedy from one unto the other, and likewise that
he go back so quick, or even the more hasty.
Yet, even did it be ever proved that Man once to be
a fish, I to have no cause to abate the first part
of mine argument; but to have the more need of the
thought, that I gain power to accept the Fact; for
I still then to have no occasion that I think Man to
have been truly a Fish, or aught truly different from
a Man; but only that he did be once Modified physically
to his need, and to be still possessed of the Man-Spirit,
though all lackt of development. Yet, truly, I
to be less offend in my Reason, if that it be shown
that Man did be ever somewise in his present shape,
though mayhap so brutish as the Humpt Men; but yet
I do be ready to consider all matters, and do build
no Walls about my Reason. Yet, neither I to have
an over-ready acceptance of aught, but to need that
my Reason shall approve.
And you to perceive, surely, that I here not to speak of that which may be Afterward, when that all This, our life, be done. For who shall say how much or how little we then to go forward unto loveliness; and I at this point to tell you that I do have a wondrous hope of beauteous things, and of sweet and mighty Uplifting and Furtherance unto that Glad World which we have beheld the shores of, when that we had stood in holiness with the Beloved.
And, in verity, I now once more to my story; and to be glad that I am done at this small setting forth of a matter which did need words, because that it did have root in this Mine Own Story, and to be grown of it and from it.