Thou living ray of intellectual fire.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.