Render an honest and a perfect man, 

Commands all light, all influence, all fate..." (he becomes self-aware, being rendered honest and is wholly influenced by his future and new beliefs)
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance..." (envy of others having books or knowledge he does not understand is proof of his ignorance, which he learns to change)
"...that imitation is suicide..." (imitating his fellow firemen by burning people and books is killing himself mentally, he decides to change and break free from imitation)
"...that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion..." (he must make his own decisions and to his own actions, for he must face the new rewards and hardships they result)

"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and 

none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried..." (the newfound passion and ideas burning inside him are entirely foreign concepts to everyone around him, but he had to continue on and stay determined regardless of how pointless the outcome may look)

for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."
These are especially connected as they both reference a reliance or lack thereof on God that is evident in every human being from birth, impacting their very being, where one must accept who they are and what they believe in and must freely embrace it regardless of the confines of society around them.