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Rh We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves, We are executive in ourselves—We are sufficient
 * in the variety of ourselves,

We are the most beautiful to ourselves, and in ourselves, Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves, Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are
 * beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.

Have you thought there could be but a single
 * Supreme?

There can be any number of Supremes—One does
 * not countervail another, any more than one eyesight
 * countervails another, or one life countervails
 * another.

All is eligible to all, All is for individuals—All is for you, No condition is prohibited, not God's or any, If one is lost, you are inevitably lost.

All comes by the body—only health puts you rapport
 * with the universe.

Produce great persons, the rest follows.

How dare a sick man, or an obedient man, write
 * poems for These States?

Which is the theory or book that, for our purposes, is
 * not diseased?

Piety and conformity to them that like! Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like! Rh