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Here was Eldorado, symbol of all external and objective values which so fired the imagination in that age of discovery; presenting a concrete and visualized goal, a summum bonum, attainable, not by contemplation, but by active endeavor; fascinating alike to the merchant dreaming of profits, to the statesman intent on conquest, to the priest in search of martyrdom, to the adventurer in, search of gold.
It is but another way of asking that great question that has come through all the ages What is the summum bonum in life? and there have been countless numbers who gladly would have given all they possessed to have had the true and satisfactory answer.
III. The Summum Bonum is the end of every creature; the passions ought to be subordinated to self-interest, and self-interest to morality. In regard to the other points, it is unnecessary to continue the summary. Under the Popular Sanction are created duties on such points as the following: The Etiquette of small societies or coteries. Religious orthodoxy; Sabbath observance.
Sterling of all men had the quickest sense for nobleness, heroism and the human summum bonum; the liveliest headlong spirit of adventure and audacity; few gifted living men less stubbornness of perseverance. Illusions, in his chase of the summum bonum, were not likely to be wanting; aberrations, and wasteful changes of course, were likely to be many!
Even in those matters in which the Code is in harmony with the popular morality, there are many exceptional cases in which summum jus is really summa injuria.
They disobeyed the injunction. Their arrest for this contempt of court promptly followed. This stopped the flood at its source. To quote from testimony given a few weeks later by Mr. Injunctions not infrequently are granted as an equitable relief against a legal judgment. Summum jus, summa injuria is an ancient maxim of the courts.
And is not a religion to be known by its fruits? Are they not right in going where they can get peace of mind? Certainly, vicar. If peace of mind be the summum bonum, and religion is merely the science of self-satisfaction, they are right; and your wisest plan will be to follow them at once, or failing that, to apply to the next best substitute that can be discovered alcohol and opium.
Quod ipsæ dilectionis tuæ literæ Apostolorum summum petramque fidei et cælestis dispensatorem mysterii creditis sibi clavibus beatum Petrum Apostolum confitentur. In compage corporis Christi consentire. Jaffé, 374; Mansi, vii. 1103.
But the spiritual stone was Christ; but Christ is the eternal wisdom, in which as the scripture says are many mansions, which are undoubtedly distinguished on account of the different grades of grace and blessedness. The second chapter of I Peter speaks of the living stone. Bon., p. 48; Trans. The masonic symbolism is accompanied clearly enough in the “Summum Bonum” by the alchemistic.
Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the 'summum bonum' the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet? We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith.
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