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Involuntarily, in self-dedication, he found himself using the familiar prayer of the theatre: O majestical Victory, shelter my life Neath thy covert of wings, Aye, cease not to grant me thy crowning. The answer to this prayer, the grant of victory, came, as it happened, in strange guise.
He left Cambridge, as he said afterwards, "free from all reproach, and approved by all honest men," with a purpose of self-dedication "to that same lot, however mean or high, towards which time leads me and the will of heaven." Even in the still calm beauty of a life such as this we catch the sterner tones of the Puritan temper.
Our blatant patriotism bore the plainest signs of such a temper; half nationalism, half aggression against some bugbear or other; never a proud calm, an earnest self-dedication, a struggle for a political ideal. We have now a Republic in Germany: no one seriously desired it. We have at last established Parliamentarianism: no one wanted it. We have set up a kind of Socialism: no one believed in it.
He heard her voice pleading with him in every accent that pride and tenderness and a noble loyalty could command; he felt her will slowly dominating his, like a supernatural power forcing him into his destined path; he felt and with how profound an irony of spirit! the passion of self-dedication in which he had taken up his task.
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