God's Image. October 12.
. . . "Honour all men." Every man should be honoured as God's image, in the sense in which Novalis says -- that we touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body! . . . The old Homeric Greeks, I think, felt that, and acted up to it, more than any nation. The Patriarchs too seem to have had the same feeling. . . .

Letters and Memories. 1843.

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