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True, their production aroused condemnation on the part of many contemporary dramatic critics, and were the source of much annoyance and little financial gain to their creator. But this is certainly no criterion for their workmanship. Balzac defied many tenets. He even had the hardihood to dispense with the claqueurs at the first night of Les Ressources de Quinola.
"And if I had been brought up in the tenets of the one instead of the other, what difference would it have made, except that I should have adhered to the creed of my forefathers, and have worshipped the Almighty after their fashion, form, and ceremonies?
If any missionaries are busy in the Highlands, their zeal entitles them to respect, even from those who cannot think favourably of their doctrine. The political tenets of the Islanders I was not curious to investigate, and they were not eager to obtrude. Their conversation is decent and inoffensive. They disdain to drink for their principles, and there is no disaffection at their tables.
I shall therefore consider these subjects, before I proceed to any new order of tenets, which they may hold.
The healthy animal sleeps and eats too much. He does not know the stimulus of pain. His normal condition is unaspiring not to say bovine. The first essential, therefore, of life, according to our tenets, is to get rid of superfluous health." Guy did not trust himself to speak this time. He only stared at his companion, who seemed pleased to have evoked his interest.
Second. No sectarian tenets shall ever be taught in any school supported in whole or in part by the State, nation, or by the proceeds of any tax levied upon any community.
And yet these, of all men, hold their opinions with the greatest stiffness; those being generally the most fierce and firm in their tenets, who have least examined them. What we once KNOW, we are certain is so: and we may be secure, that there are no latent proofs undiscovered, which may overturn our knowledge, or bring it in doubt.
Then he became offended, stiff with injured dignity, almost anxious. But he communed with himself, analysed his feelings under various headings, and discovered that he was not discouraged. He was aware at least, he told himself that he was aware that extraordinary efforts must be made in love affairs. I don't know how he reconciled that startling theory with his other tenets, but he did.
I commented upon this, pointing out to her that this is the strange quality of the Roman faith that its forms and customs, learned in youth, remain in the affections of Papists to their dying day, even after many years of neglect and unbelief; whereas in the severe, Spanish-drab Protestantism to which I was reared, if one once loses interest in the tenets themselves, there is nothing whatever left upon which the mind may linger pleasantly.
It was a very good example of the good that may result from evil, which is one of the puzzling reverses of one of the Christian tenets. "'Work, for the night is coming, Work through the morning hours, Work while the dew is sparkling, Work 'mid springing flowers," trilled Charlotte in a high, buzzy young voice, while Jimmy piped in a few notes lower.
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