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But seen as the crowning effort of many lives of steady improvement, as the triumph of the God within us over the lower nature, it comes within calculable distance, and we recall the words of Porphyry, how the man who achieves "the paradigmatic virtues is the Father of the Gods," and that in the Mysteries these virtues were acquired.
If he was the inventor of a remarkably calculable <i>facture</i>, a calculation that never fails is in its way a grace of the first order, and there are things in this special appearance of perfection of practice that make him the forerunner of a mighty and more modern race. More than any of the early painters who strongly charm, you may take all his measure from a single specimen.
So far as those parts of man's doings are concerned, which neither have, nor need have, anything moral about them, so far the laws of him are calculable. There are laws for his digestion, and laws of the means by which his digestive organs are supplied with matter. But pass beyond them, and where are we?
The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
Rufinus declared that it was blasphemy against the Almighty to interpret events happening in the course of eternal law and calculable beforehand, as a threatening sign from Him; as though man's deserts had any connection with the courses of the sun and moon.
Or he may be but a worker in some material, a carver in wood, or a manager of commercial affairs, or a governor and administrator of men, and yet so order his life that his work and his material are his object: not his gain in the end not his appreciable and calculable gain at least nor his immediate and ephemeral pleasures. Now what is that?
Swayed by the fleeting impulses of the hour, they have only one persistent, calculable motive on which reliance can always be placed that motive is vanity; you are always sure of them there. It is from vanity they are good from vanity they are evil; their devotion and their desertion equally vanity. I know them. To me they have disclosed the shallows of their natures.
Their movements, in short, were demonstrated by the most unanswerable of all arguments that of verified calculation to be calculable, and their investigation was erected into a legitimate department of astronomical science. This notable advance was the chief result obtained in the field of inquiry just now under consideration during the eighteenth century.
Apart from miraculous intervention, therefore, the assumption seems to be inevitable that the intermediate processes are calculable too, and compounded out of the others. The appearance to the contrary presented in animal and social life is easily explicable on psychological grounds.
Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. Let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed to avow, and his mind will be bent on all the possible issues that may deliver him from the calculable results of that position.
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