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This work is one in which the question of heroism and nobility is scientifically treated, and in the most rigid manner, 'by line and level, and through that representative form in which the historical pretence of it is tried, through that scientific negation, with its merely instinctive, vulgar, unlearned ambition with its monstrous 'outstretching' on the one hand, and its dwarfish limitations on the other, through all that finely drawn, historic picture of that which claims the human subjection, the clear scientific lines of the true ideal type are visible, the outline of the true nobility and government is visible, towering above that detected insufficiency, into the perfection of the human form, into the heaven of the true divineness, into the chair of the perpetual dictatorship, into the consulship whose year revolves not, whose year is the state.
And as to preaching, what ground have I to think that mine is of any particular importance? Not that I mean to affect any humility which I do not feel. I profess that I have quite a good opinion of myself as a preacher. Oh! if I could add, a full sense of the divineness of the thing, I should say all.
What divineness, what logical weight, in our Lord's parables, unless He was by them trying to show his hearers that the laws which they saw at work in the lilies of the field, in the most common occupations of men, were but lower manifestations of the laws by which are governed the inmost workings of the human spirit? What triflers, on any other ground, were Socrates and Plato.
Admiration did not here fall upon one with lightning speed; it was slowly, irresistibly that one grew charmed. And the contrast was like that of Racine beside Corneille, Lamartine beside Hugo, the eternal pair, the masculine and feminine genius coupled through centuries of glory. With Raffaelle it is nobility, grace, exquisiteness, and correctness of line, and divineness of harmony that triumph.
"Father Hilarion once said to me: 'Daughter, I give you the ultimate criterion of the divineness of our religion there cannot be an instance of human trial for which it does not furnish a rule of conduct and consolation. A profound saying truly! Now is it possible we have here at last an exception? I do not seek to know on which side the honors lie. Where are the humanities?
Every one who met him perceived the source of all this rare grace and fascinating nobility of soul to be a sense of the glory and divineness of all life. His soul stood in a reverential attitude toward existence, and a marvelous light shone through him and his poetry as the result. Down to the last his pen was active. He died on the 24th of March, 1882.
Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness; and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
It is the divineness of the invention the need for the food, and the food for the need that makes those who count their dinner the most important thing in the day, such low creatures: nothing but what is good in itself can be turned into vileness. It is a delight to see a boy with a good honest appetite; a boy that loves his dinner is a loathsome creature.
What a modern talks of by the name, Forces of Nature, Laws of Nature; and does not figure as a divine thing; not even as one thing at all, but as a set of things, undivine enough, salable, curious, good for propelling steamships! With our Sciences and Cyclopaedias, we are apt to forget the divineness, in those laboratories of ours. We ought not to forget it!
Now out of her own soul she learnt what not one human being in a million learns, and yet the truth remains the same the unity, the immortality, the divineness of Love, to which the One Immortal and Divine gave His own name. She sat in her usual quiet mood, she did everything in such a quiet, self-contained fashion now sat, idly talked to by Major Harper, whom she did not hear at all.
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