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We did not come to our work by accident; we did not choose it for ourselves; but, in the midst of much which may wear the appearance of accident and self-choosing, came to it by God's leading and appointment. How will this consideration help us to appreciate justly the dignity of our work, though it were far humbler work, even in the eyes of men, than that of any one of us here present!
The characteristic of the Middle Ages may be approximately though only approximately described as a return to the period of authoritative usage and as an abandonment of the classical habit of independent and self-choosing thought.
One cannot help liking him for the fine audacity with which he pronounces his own work good, better even than that of a certain other great name in English literature; one cannot help loving him for the sweet humility with which he accepts the view that, after all, success or failure lies entirely without the range of self-choosing.
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