The full text of “Self-Reliance” does not contain the word “sacred” in the opening paragraphs. Perhaps you are reading an abridged version. The word does appear twice in the 7th paragraph, as follows: Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. … Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. … No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;...
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