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Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception; exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.
"Exalted in majesty, Defender of honour, protecting his own with strength! We will remember him!" "Neela Deo, Neela Deo, King of all elephants!" "He with the wisdom of ages. Destroyer of devastators, preserving his friend with blood! Our children shall not forget!" "He the Discerner of men, Equitable King! He the Discerner of evil, Invincible King!
He had said that it was all hers. How pretty was this vista through the luxurious rooms down to the green and sunny conservatory. And she shrank instinctively from it all. Was it hers? No; it was his. And was she only a part of it? Was she his? How cold his look as he went away! What is this love, this divine passion, of which we hear so much? Is it, then, such a discerner of right and wrong?
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do." The Lord God was abroad.
It was no discerner of people; its area was limitless, it harvested whence it would and, while it was named, it was not understood. David Martin ordered Doris and Nancy out of town at once. "You may not escape," he said, "but your best chance is in the open. Besides, you'll leave us freer here." "But Joan David!" "Joan be hanged! Can't she get to Ridge House?" "Of course.
He had said that it was all hers. How pretty was this vista through the luxurious rooms down to the green and sunny conservatory. And she shrank instinctively from it all. Was it hers? No; it was his. And was she only a part of it? Was she his? How cold his look as he went away! What is this love, this divine passion, of which we hear so much? Is it, then, such a discerner of right and wrong?
Well does the great discerner of the desires of men as well as delineator of the movements of their passions, make Crook Richard on his foully usurped and tottering throne exclaim, "War must be brief when traitors brave the field." At a later day, in a holier cause, the line remains an axiom. Nor at the time of which we write was the policy much changed.
And think again, that if He condescended, as in Judea of old, to employ that knowledge in teaching men He who knew what was in man, and needed not that any should bear witness to Him of man He would manifest a knowledge of human nature to which that of a Shakspeare would be purblind and dull; a knowledge of which the Scripture nobly says that "The Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart;" so that all "things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do."
And verily it should be yet better within than without, for God is a discerner of our heart, Whom we must reverence with all our hearts wheresoever we are, and walk pure in His presence as do the angels.
The writer of the Koran does, indeed, if any discerner of hearts ever did, take the measure of mankind; and his measure is the same that Satire has taken, only expressed with the majestic brevity of one who had once lived in the realm of Silence. "Man is weak," says Mahomet.
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