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He was willing to enter into his friend's mood. "Have you ever tried to swallow it?" asked North. "I can't say I have. Some of us haven't any business with a conscience our blood's too red. I've made up my mind that, while I may be a man of moral impulses I am also a creature of purest accident. It's the same with you, Jack.
John Bunyan's own experience enters deeply into these terrible pages. In composing these terrible pages, Bunyan writes straight and bold out of his own heart and conscience. The black and bitter essence of a whole black and bitter volume is crushed into these four or five bitter pages.
If yours cal'lates to disturb you some you can go right on up to your room, lamb, for you must be dead with lugging them children around." Nellie's tears disappeared not to return. She shook her head. "No, ma," she said; "my conscience is just like them children sleeping so hard it would take Gabriel's trumpet to wake 'em up. It's more tired than I am."
An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing above knowing.
"So, then, Hadley is dead?" queried the 'Squire, who felt a deep interest in that young man's welfare. "Yes, sorry enough I am to say it, for it is the only murder that rests on my conscience, and a heavy burden and a deep stain it is with which to appear in the presence of an offended God!" "And you know nothing of Eveline?" interposed Mr. Mandeville. "Nothing more than I have told you.
My conscience told me that I had been far from peaceable; on the contrary, I had been decidedly cross; not that I would confess that this was the case, so I only returned mildly that I considered that he had been hard on me that day, and had handled my pet theory very roughly. 'Come, now you are talking like a reasonable woman, and I will plead guilty to some severity.
As thoughts of shame and stings of conscience stabbed into his heart with their thousand points, he sank down lower and lower to the ground till he had buried his face in the grass, sobbing convulsively.
And we do trust in God that it shall not be interpreted as a thing ill done on our part, if preferring the salvation of our soul and the relief of our conscience to any mundane respects or favours, we have in this cause regarded more the Divine law than the laws of man, and have thought it rather meet to obey God than to obey man."
"Not necessarily," said Clerambault, "he can oppose them with a clear conscience if they are contrary to right and happiness. Liberty consists in that very thing, that a free man is in himself a conscious law of the universe, a counter-balance to the crushing machine, the automaton of Spitteler, the bronze Ananké.
Having taken this first step and made the state supreme over the individual will and conscience, the imperial class makes its next move for "national defense." The country is made to appear in constant danger from attack. Men are urged to protect their homes and their families.
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