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It is well to have a little warmth, but if the heat be increased beyond a certain point, it burns and consumes, instead of comforting and cheering. The disposition of the caviller is anything but enviable, and if God were to take him at his word, his lot would be anything but comfortable.
It cries you up or runs you down out of mere caprice and levity. Every petty caviller is erected into a judge, every tale-bearer is implicitly believed. An author is not then, after all, a being of another order. Public admiration is forced, and goes against the grain. Public obloquy is cordial and sincere: every individual feels his own importance in it.
For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.
To be good is the only way to get near to anybody. When you're naughty, Willie, you can't get near your mamma, can you?" "Yes, I can. I can get close up to her." "Is that near enough? Would you be quite content with that? Even when she turns away her face and won't look at you?" The little caviller was silent. "Did you ever see God, Marion?" asked one of the girls.
Estimate next, the force of that well known passage "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength!" The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.
A public accuser would be intolerable, or even a caviller, who should inveigh against sins for which he himself is called in question. But in this man I find all wickednesses combined. There is no lust, no iniquity, no shamelessness of which his life does not supply with ample evidence." The nature of the difficulty to which Cicero is thus subjected is visible enough.
If these points are handled in a free and copious manner, as I purpose to do, they will be less liable to the cavils of the Academics; but the narrow, confined way in which Zeno reasoned upon them laid them more open to objection; for as running streams are seldom or never tainted, while standing waters easily grow corrupt, so a fluency of expression washes away the censures of the caviller, while the narrow limits of a discourse which is too concise is almost defenceless; for the arguments which I am enlarging upon are thus briefly laid down by Zeno: VIII. "That which reasons is superior to that which does not; nothing is superior to the world; the world, therefore, reasons."
For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.
He thanked me for my sympathy and companionship, and I have never heard of him since. The caviller will say at once: "Could not someone else have done the work equally well either a near relation in the other sphere or a ministering angel?" The answer is: "Certainly they could have done it equally well, probably far better."
But my uncle, whose religion had been sadly undermined at court, was a terrible caviller at the holy mysteries of Catholicism; and while his friends termed him a Protestant, his enemies hinted, falsely enough, that he was a sceptic.
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