The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U. S. so as to carry equal justice to them.
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc. , are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires.
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.
Miracles and magic pervade the things that I've written, but yet there are no miracles and there is no magic.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
