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mind could think out for itself , or it has risen nobly to the knowledge of the Eternal through a series of trials , such as Job trembled , suffered , hoped , or sorrowed under . And it had its wild fits of intemperate passion , out of which Time , the great elixir , rescued it . And so has history lived its life , through ignorance and crimp , savagery uncouth and civilization insincere ; and the periods of
darkness and doubt , when the hard lessons of experience were almost more than it could bear , have been succeeded by an honester age , when men are making up their minds to hold forth a friendly hand to their fellows , and to raise up them that fall , and guide the weary to some cool arbour , where the pleasant woodbine twines about the seat , and the honeysuckle , bowing to the breeze , showers down its fragrant blossoms , as a gift of love and truth from the plant-world to its erring master .
And here it seems to me a fitting opportunity to make mention of the wonderful law of Human Evolution , discovered by Comte , a man combining the most perfect method of mind with the results of a vast deal of erudition , acquired and connected according to mathematical
principles , and developed in conformity with the most philanthropic views of Religion . To consider the innumerable series of essays upon the p hilosophy of history to be finite and explicit , without dwelling with earnestness over the works of this great man , is to know little of the human heart and its sensibilities .
The great law of Human Evolution is one as widely known as it is wilfully ignored . 12 Amour pourprincipe ; TOrdre pour base ; et le Pr ogres pour but . Vivre pour Autrui . Impulse it is , and rarely judgment , which governs the actions of men for good or for evil . Eor , does not the judgment come cranking in after any action whatever , and condemn that which the heart at the same instant encourages ? It is impulse , brief and evanescent , which gives courage enough to
brute force to scale a fortress , to storm a battery , and to accomplish a victory . It is evanescent impulse which gives to the writer happy ideas and the power of expressing them ; to the philosopher , impulse gives the key to the divine mysteries of some grand and enduring theory . Impulse pulls the penny out of our pockets and places it in the palm of poverty ; and the feeling called charity coincides with the self-gratulation consequent upon the consciousness of having done that which is our duty to God and our neighbour .
L Amour pour principe . Here is the rock upon which the old empires split . Not brotherly love but expediency , not benevolence but self-aggrandisement , was the principle upon which the governments of the ancient world were conducted ; and yet , as I said before , religion was not wanting , as a guiding principle . But there
was no love in the ancient religion , or if there were , the knowledge of it was confined to a small section of the ancient populations . Socrates fe ] l a martyr in Hellas to the creed of brotherly sympathy . Democritus tried , failed , and laughed scornfully at the bitter mockery of the principle of expediency . Heraclitus wept for mankind , but as much with vexation at the want of success he met with , as in
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mind could think out for itself , or it has risen nobly to the knowledge of the Eternal through a series of trials , such as Job trembled , suffered , hoped , or sorrowed under . And it had its wild fits of intemperate passion , out of which Time , the great elixir , rescued it . And so has history lived its life , through ignorance and crimp , savagery uncouth and civilization insincere ; and the periods of
darkness and doubt , when the hard lessons of experience were almost more than it could bear , have been succeeded by an honester age , when men are making up their minds to hold forth a friendly hand to their fellows , and to raise up them that fall , and guide the weary to some cool arbour , where the pleasant woodbine twines about the seat , and the honeysuckle , bowing to the breeze , showers down its fragrant blossoms , as a gift of love and truth from the plant-world to its erring master .
And here it seems to me a fitting opportunity to make mention of the wonderful law of Human Evolution , discovered by Comte , a man combining the most perfect method of mind with the results of a vast deal of erudition , acquired and connected according to mathematical
principles , and developed in conformity with the most philanthropic views of Religion . To consider the innumerable series of essays upon the p hilosophy of history to be finite and explicit , without dwelling with earnestness over the works of this great man , is to know little of the human heart and its sensibilities .
The great law of Human Evolution is one as widely known as it is wilfully ignored . 12 Amour pourprincipe ; TOrdre pour base ; et le Pr ogres pour but . Vivre pour Autrui . Impulse it is , and rarely judgment , which governs the actions of men for good or for evil . Eor , does not the judgment come cranking in after any action whatever , and condemn that which the heart at the same instant encourages ? It is impulse , brief and evanescent , which gives courage enough to
brute force to scale a fortress , to storm a battery , and to accomplish a victory . It is evanescent impulse which gives to the writer happy ideas and the power of expressing them ; to the philosopher , impulse gives the key to the divine mysteries of some grand and enduring theory . Impulse pulls the penny out of our pockets and places it in the palm of poverty ; and the feeling called charity coincides with the self-gratulation consequent upon the consciousness of having done that which is our duty to God and our neighbour .
L Amour pour principe . Here is the rock upon which the old empires split . Not brotherly love but expediency , not benevolence but self-aggrandisement , was the principle upon which the governments of the ancient world were conducted ; and yet , as I said before , religion was not wanting , as a guiding principle . But there
was no love in the ancient religion , or if there were , the knowledge of it was confined to a small section of the ancient populations . Socrates fe ] l a martyr in Hellas to the creed of brotherly sympathy . Democritus tried , failed , and laughed scornfully at the bitter mockery of the principle of expediency . Heraclitus wept for mankind , but as much with vexation at the want of success he met with , as in