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Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is;
Do you imagine it has stopt at this? the increase abandon’d?
Understand then that it goes as far onward from this,
as this is from the times when it lay in covering waters and gases,
before man had appear’d.

Great is the quality of Truth in man;
The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,
It is inevitably in the man—he and it are in love, and never leave each other.

The truth in man is no dictum, it is vital as eyesight;
If there be any Soul, there is truth—if there be man or woman
there is truth—if there be physical or moral, there is truth;
If there be equilibrium or volition, there is truth—if there be
things at all upon the earth, there is truth.

O truth of the earth! I am determin’d to press my way toward you;
Sound your voice! I scale mountains, or dive in the sea after you.

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Commemorating Earth Day 2014
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