An Address Delivered Before the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth December 22 1834
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The Demon in which Socrates believed was a still more interesting form of the same principle. The Grecians founded the most of their colonies under the professed guidance of oracles, directing them agreeably to the will of their gods. The Romans consulted similar guides, and watched the flight of birds, and examined the entrails of beasts, for like purposes. In modern times, all his biographers agree in designating it as a marked peculiarity in Na- poleon, that his mysterious ideas concerning h...is own ' destiny, ' yet to be accomplished, operated as powerful stimulants to his natu- rally energetic mind. In the trying circumstances of war, the most distinguished commanders are in the habit of appealing, in a similar way, to Heaven, knowing the influence of such an act on the souls of their followers. And the late Lord Byron is exhibited as de- riving a degree of consolation, under a severe domestic affliction, by a recurrence to this theory. The human mind appears to need the practical acknowledgement of ' a present Deity, ' to support 17 and animate it to high exertion amid the difficulties of life.
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