1. ۱1
2. ۲MANHATTAN’S streets I saunter’d, pondering,
3. ۳On time, space, reality—on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence.
4. ۴
5. ۵2
6. ۶After all, the last explanation remains to be made about prudence;
7. ۷Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
8. ۸
9. ۹The Soul is of itself;
10. ۱۰All verges to it—all has reference to what ensues;
11. ۱۱All that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence;
12. ۱۲Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of
13. ۱۳ the
14. ۱۴ direct
15. ۱۵ life-time, or the hour of death, but the same affects him or her onward afterward through
16. ۱۶ the
17. ۱۷ indirect life-time.
18. ۱۸
19. ۱۹3
20. ۲۰The indirect is just as much as the direct,
21. ۲۱The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
22. ۲۲
23. ۲۳Not one word or deed—not venereal sore, discoloration, privacy of the onanist,
24. ۲۴ putridity
25. ۲۵ of
26. ۲۶ gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, cunning, betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution,
27. ۲۷ but
28. ۲۸ has
29. ۲۹ results beyond death, as really as before death.
30. ۳۰
31. ۳۱4
32. ۳۲Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
33. ۳۳
34. ۳۴No specification is necessary—all that a male or female does, that is vigorous,
35. ۳۵ benevolent,
36. ۳۶ clean, is so much profit to him or her, in the unshakable order of the universe, and
37. ۳۷ through
38. ۳۸ the
39. ۳۹ whole scope of it forever.
40. ۴۰
41. ۴۱5
42. ۴۲Who has been wise, receives interest,
43. ۴۳Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, mechanic, literat, young, old, it is the
44. ۴۴ same,
45. ۴۵The interest will come round—all will come round.
46. ۴۶
47. ۴۷Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect all of the past,
48. ۴۸ and
49. ۴۹ all of
50. ۵۰ the present, and all of the future,
51. ۵۱All the brave actions of war and peace,
52. ۵۲All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows,
53. ۵۳ the
54. ۵۴ sick,
55. ۵۵ and to shunn’d persons,
56. ۵۶All furtherance of fugitives, and of the escape of slaves,
57. ۵۷All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of
58. ۵۸ the
59. ۵۹ boats,
60. ۶۰All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend’s sake, or
61. ۶۱ opinion’s sake,
62. ۶۲All pains of enthusiasts, scoff’d at by their neighbors,
63. ۶۳All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
64. ۶۴All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded,
65. ۶۵All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,
66. ۶۶All the good of the dozens of ancient nations unknown to us by name, date, location,
67. ۶۷All that was ever manfully begun, whether it succeeded or no,
68. ۶۸All suggestions of the divine mind of man, or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of
69. ۶۹ his
70. ۷۰ great
71. ۷۱ hands;
72. ۷۲All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe—or on any of the
73. ۷۳ wandering
74. ۷۴ stars, or on any of the fix’d stars, by those there as we are here;
75. ۷۵All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you, whoever you are, or by any one;
76. ۷۶These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall
77. ۷۷ spring.
78. ۷۸
79. ۷۹6
80. ۸۰Did you guess anything lived only its moment?
81. ۸۱The world does not so exist—no parts palpable or impalpable so exist;
82. ۸۲No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation—and that
83. ۸۳ from
84. ۸۴ some
85. ۸۵ other,
86. ۸۶Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
87. ۸۷
88. ۸۸7
89. ۸۹Whatever satisfies Souls is true;
90. ۹۰Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of Souls;
91. ۹۱Itself only finally satisfies the Soul;
92. ۹۲The Soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
93. ۹۳
94. ۹۴8
95. ۹۵Now I give you an inkling;
96. ۹۶Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality,
97. ۹۷That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
98. ۹۸
99. ۹۹What is prudence, is indivisible,
100. ۱۰۰Declines to separate one part of life from every part,
101. ۱۰۱Divides not the righteous from the unrighteous, or the living from the dead,
102. ۱۰۲Matches every thought or act by its correlative,
103. ۱۰۳Knows no possible forgiveness, or deputed atonement,
104. ۱۰۴Knows that the young man who composedly peril’d his life and lost it, has done
105. ۱۰۵ exceedingly
106. ۱۰۶ well
107. ۱۰۷ for himself without doubt,
108. ۱۰۸That he who never peril’d his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has
109. ۱۰۹ probably
110. ۱۱۰ achiev’d nothing for himself worth mentioning;
111. ۱۱۱Knows that only that person has really learn’d, who has learn’d to prefer
112. ۱۱۲ results,
113. ۱۱۳Who favors Body and Soul the same,
114. ۱۱۴Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
115. ۱۱۵Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or, avoids death.