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His death, says this text, redeems us from iniquity and purifies us. That points to its power in delivering us from the service and practice of sin. He buys us from the despot whose slaves we were, and makes us His own in the hatred of evil and the doing of righteousness. Moved by His death, we become capable of heroisms and martyrdoms of devotion to Him.
The epic is composed of individual heroisms; it stands to them as the victorious war which subdued an empire stands to the personal act of bravery which spiked a single cannon and was adequately rewarded with a medal.
The epic is composed of individual heroisms; it stands to them as the victorious war which subdued an empire stands to the personal act of bravery which spiked a single cannon and was adequately rewarded with a medal.
Let us say I am writing about the humble heroisms; for ten minutes before I go into the trance I think of nothing but orphans supporting their little brothers and sisters, of dull work well and patiently done, and I focus my mind on such great philosophical truths as the purification and uplifting of the soul by suffering, and the alchemical transformation of leaden evil into golden good."
Of scenes like these, I say, who writes whoe'er can write the story? Of many a score aye, thousands, north and south, of unwrit heroes, unknown heroisms, incredible, impromptu, first-class desperations who tells? No history ever no poem sings, no music sounds, those bravest men of all those deeds.
That is why peace can never be an end: it, too, is merely a condition or means. The question is, what do you do with your peace, for peace may mean merely sloth and cowardly ease, where war may mean unselfish heroism. That is what the peace promoters forget. War has its brutalities, and terrible indeed they are: unleashed hate, lust, cruelty and revenge; but war has its heroisms.
Thus it has arisen, this Imperial Britain, from the dark Unconscious emerging to the Conscious, not like an empire of mist uprising under the wands of magic-working architects, but based on heroisms, endurances, lofty ideals frustrate yet imperishable, patient thought slowly elaborating itself through the ages the sea-wolves' battle fury, the splendour of chivalry, the crusader's dazzling hope, the immortal ardour of Norman and Plantagenet kings, baffled, foiled, but still in other forms returning to uplift the spirit of succeeding times, the unconquered hearts of Tudor mariners rejoicing in the battle onset and the storm, the strung thought, the intense vision of statesmen of the later centuries, Eliot, Chatham, Canning, and at the last, deep-toned, far-echoing as the murmur of forests and cataracts, the sanctioning voices of enfranchised millions accepting their destiny, resolute!
But the scientific quality of the psychological reasoning of the socialists is best illustrated by their treatment of another class of facts that on which they themselves unanimously lay the greatest stress namely, the heroisms of the soldier, and other men of a kindred type.
The last half of his life was spent in the most assiduous, minute, exacting labors. The self-watchful diary gives place to a public chronicle, prosaic as a ship's log-book and, like the log-book, the shorthand record of adventures, heroisms, and sublimities. In the Puritan of Winthrop's type the flame of spiritual emotion was harnessed and made to serve.
You are right; but if you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones that an idea will make a man and mould a character that it lies at the source of all heroisms and is to be courted or feared as the case may be. "For me it possessed a power proportionate to my loneliness. I don't think there was ever a more lonely child.
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