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FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Man's every-day conception of himself—No less remaining unconceived!""Agreed"!
"Yet thou, insisting on the right of manTo feel as man, not otherwise,—man, boundBy man's conditions neither less nor more,Obliged to estimate as fair or foul,Right, wrong, good, evil, what man's facultyAdjudges such,—how canst thou,—thiswise boundTo take man's truth for truth and only truth,—Dare to accept, in just one case, as truthFalsehood confessed? Flesh simulating fire—Our fellow-man whom we his fellows knowFor dust—instinct with fire unknowable!
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