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or to leave it unfollowed, but it properly consists in the single course of originating a new movement running counter to all the biases which nature gives thee, and in rising superior to the bondage thou wert born in. I will unwind from around thee, fold after fold, the coils of the inert logic of causality; and if thou wilt stand forth practically as nature's victorious foe, and speculatively as the assertor of the absolute liberty of man against the dogmas of physics, breaking the chain of causality, disclaiming the inspiration which is thy birthright, and working thyself out of the slough of sensualism, then shalt thou be one of my true disciples."