id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 60951 Thoreau, Henry David The Service .txt text/plain 4920 192 73 The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple, which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily, and with as pure a flame, on the obscure provincial altars as in Numa�s temple at Rome. It was a conceit of Plutarch, accounting for the preference given to signs observed on the left hand, that men may have thought �things terrestrial and mortal directly over against heavenly and divine things, and do conjecture that the things which to us are on the left hand, the gods send down from their right hand.� If we are not blind, we shall see how a right hand is stretched over all,�as well the unlucky as the lucky,� cache/60951.txt txt/60951.txt