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Our organs of criticism are organs of men and parties having practical ends to serve, and with them those practical ends are the first thing and the play of mind the second; so much play of mind as is compatible with the prosecution of those practical ends is all that is wanted.
But even as he spoke he was wishing with all his heart that there was some way of showing her what they had meant to him. He did not do it, for a soul which has been long apart grows fearful of sending itself out, fearful of making itself absurd. They talked it all out then, going at practical things in a very matter-of-fact way. "And now," said the doctor, "I have a suggestion.
Sir William Martin and I have much talk about it; and the strong practical mind of the Primate, I hope, would keep me straight if I was disposed to theorise, which I don't think is the case. 'But Christianity is the religion for humanity at large. It takes in all shades and diversities of character, race, &c.
'You are a good girl not to triumph over me, said Mr. Bell. 'How? What do you mean? 'I own, I am wrong about schooling. Anything rather than have that child brought up in such practical paganism. 'Oh! I remember. Poor little Susan! I must go and see her; would you mind calling at the school? 'Not a bit. I am curious to see something of the teaching she is to receive.
He went; but the tutor was now married, and was himself a father, and that made a wonderful alteration in his practical ethics. It was no longer moral to aid the son in rebellion to his father. Vivian evinced his usual sarcastic haughtiness at the reception he met, and was requested civilly to leave the house. Then again he flung himself on his wits at Paris.
M. Comte is equally free from the error of considering any practical rule or doctrine that can be laid down in politics as universal and absolute. All political truth he deems strictly relative, implying as its correlative a given state or situation of society.
If, after practical experience and fair trial, he found himself powerless to serve their common interests, or advance their ideals, then he could leave the field of Parliament and seek elsewhere for a hearing. His ingenuous hope was to interest his leaders; for he believed that many who possessed power, thought and felt as he did.
And here we come to the fundamental remedy for all questionable practices the education of the people beyond them. But this is simply the ideal condition in which ideal ethics could prevail. Meanwhile we must determine the practical ethics of the actual world.
Let him put aside the overwrought fancies of the day, and return to practical life again. He almost rose from his seat as though to emphasize his sober thought, but an impression restrained him. "And so I lose My witnesses!" he imagined his Lord saying with grief. "They are walking by sight and not by faith, and the seen, tangible things hold them.
It is enough simply to remind the reader that although so late as the time of Charles V., the provinces had been declared constituent parts of the empire, liable to its burthens, and entitled to its protection; the Netherlanders being practical people, and deeming burthens and protection correlative, had declined the burthen because always deprived of the protection.
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