Natural Law: An Essay in EthicsTrübner & Company, 1878 - 371 pages |
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Page 349 - And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Page 207 - Thus deeply drinking in the soul of things, We shall be wise perforce ; and while inspired By choice, and conscious that the will is free,' Unswerving shall we move, as if impelled By strict necessity, along the path Of order and of good.
Page vi - For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, 'tis certain it must lie very deep and abstruse ; and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous.
Page 209 - But we must further remember also, (which thing to touch in a word shall suffice,) that as in this respect they have their law, which law directeth them in the means whereby they tend to their own perfection : so likewise another law there is, which toucheth them as they are sociable parts united into one body ; a law which bindeth them each to serve unto other's good, and all to prefer the good of the whole before whatsoever their own particular...
Page 294 - I too rest in faith That man's perfection is the crowning flower, Toward which the urgent sap in life's great tree Is pressing, — seen in puny blossoms now, But in the world's great morrows to expand With broadest petal and with deepest glow.