Towards democracy

490 Towards Democracy

For the moment I am pledged to this or that; Yet I feel that in the end I must accept all, And shall be content with nothing less than all.

BELIEVE YOURSELF A WHOLE

ELIEVE yourself a Whole. These needs, these desires, these faculties—

This of eating and drinking, the great pleasure of food,,! the need of sex-conyerse and of renewal in and from thes bodies of others ;

The faculty of sight, the wonderful panorama of thes visible, and of hearing ;

The inquisitive roaming brain, the love of society andb good fellowship ; ;

The joy of contest, the yearnings of Religion, the mysu@ impulses of night, of Nature, of solitude ;

All these and a thousand other impulses, capacities, determinations, are indeed Yourself—the output and evidences and delineation of Yourself.

They cannot (in any permanent sense) be peeled off andb thrown away ; ;

They spring inevitably deep down out of yourself—andb will recur again wherever you are.

There is no creature in the whole range of Being font the highest to the lowest which does not exhibit these andp similar capacities, or the germs of them, in itself.

You are that Whole which Nature also is—and yet yom are that Whole in your own peculiar way.