...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...

...principle, Jesus' equal, writing, "They call it Christianity, I call it Consciousness," as well as "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me" (JMN7, 28; CW2, 30). (The former marks him and every sentient being an incarnation, whereas the latter...

...our being. Because it requires a self-conscious striving, one through which we might, for example, "shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me," it thereby falls within reach of reflection's flickering taper (CW2, 30). So it marks us as a bit more...