Kelly Taylor
speaker
131 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Kelly Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They are not at all dull then, those stereotyped transcripts of commonplace humanity whom we encounter at every turn of this popular vanity fair.
They are not at all wearisome then, those men and women led by the tinkling of customs weather bell, those fashion plate patterns of one another in dress, those
Those etiquette-book copies of each other in manners, those living illustrations of propriety, who have been taught to move with the same motion, speak in the same tone, think the same thoughts, crowd down their souls into the same narrow actual, and shut the door against the contemplation of any high possible.
Then, too, we must account them very wise in their conclusion that, although an act may be good, may be of importance to mankind, may be a deed which justice or honour dictates, yet if it would look singular,
If it has not been done by some other of their set before, oh shocking
It is to be shunned and denounced.
What pleasant, profitable companions they make, these repetition people are
What great actions, great benefits, and great examples the world may hope from them.
They have escaped the dreadful imputation of eccentricity.
Is not that
The sumum bonum of a man or woman's existence?
Shall we venture to remind them that
that not as a tree, not as a leaf, not a flower, not a blade of grass, is fashioned by the divine hand, precisely similar to any other,
not a single human being is created without distinctive features and characteristics, and that by the attempt of those servile copyists to conceal or obliterate the wonderful spiritual and physical individuality given to each, they tacitly rebuke the infinite diversity of the creator's works,
Shall we also dare to hint to them that as the eccentricities of genius is a common expression, it may possibly suggest the inference that where there is most genius there is usually most originality of thought, consequentially, originality or eccentricity of expression, manner and action?
Thus may we not arrive at the potential deduction that original or eccentric people are usually persons endowed with uncommon capacities, if not gifted with positive genius, and
For ourselves we have the bad taste to avow the contact with thoroughly original spirits is to us refreshing and enlivening in the highest degree.
How their presence awakens stirs up a sluggish dead alive cauterie.
How they infuse new ideas, new pulses, new vitality into lower, duller, more torpid organizations, how they reinvigorate the great social artery by a process which resembles the physical practice patent in other days of injecting buoyant, healthy blood into the flaccid veins of the feeble and dying.
These original minds force us to think, startle us into feeling, make us ashamed of our own insignificance, inspire us to search out the purposes of our being, cried, Excelsior, in our ears, impel us onward in the path of progress, and so we bid them all hail.
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