Zanoni — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Human Existence subject to, and exempt from, ordinary conditions (Sickness, Poverty, Ignorance, Death ). Science is ever striving to carry the most gifted beyond ordinary conditions, —the result being as many victims as efforts, and the striver being finally left a solitary, — for his object is unsuitable to the natures he has to deal with. The pursuit of the Ideal involves so much emotion as to render the Idealist vulnerable by human passion, however long and well guarded, still vulnerable, — liable, at last, to a union with Instinct. Passion obscures both Insight and Forecast. All effort to elevate Instinct to Idealism is abortive, the laws of their being not coinciding (in the early stage of the existence of the one). Instinct is either alarmed, and takes refuge in Superstition or Custom, or is left helpless to human charity, or given over to providential care. Idealism, stripped of insight and forecast, loses its serenity, becomes subject once more to the horror from which it had escaped, and by accepting its aids, forfeits the higher help of
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Faith ; aspiration, however, remaining still possible, and, thereby, slow restoration ; and also, SOMETHING BETTER. Summoned by aspiration, Faith extorts from Fear itself the saving truth to which Science continues blind, and which Idealism itself hails as its crowning acquisition, — the inestimable Proor wrought out by all labors and all conflicts.
Pending the elaboration of this proof, Conventionalism plods on, safe and complacent ; Selfish Passion perishes, grovelling and hopeless ; Instinct sleeps, in order to a loftier waking; and Idealism learns, as its ultimate lesson, that self-sacrifice is true redemption; that the region beyond the grave is the fitting one for exemption from mortal conditions ; and that Death is the everlasting portal, indicated by the finger of God, — the broad avenue through which man does not issue solitary and stealthy into the region of Free Existence, but enters triumphant, hailed by a hierarchy of immortal natures.
The result is (in other words), THat THE UNIVERSAL HuMAN Lor Is, AFTER ALL, THAT OF THE HIGHEST PRIVILEGE.
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Human Existence subject to, and exempt from, ordinary conditions (Sickness, Poverty, Ignorance, Death ). Science is ever striving to carry the most gifted beyond ordinary conditions, —the result being as many victims as efforts, and the striver being finally left a solitary, — for his object is unsuitable to the natures he has to deal with. The pursuit of the Ideal involves so much emotion as to render the Idealist vulnerable by human passion, however long and well guarded, still vulnerable, — liable, at last, to a union with Instinct. Passion obscures both Insight and Forecast. All effort to elevate Instinct to Idealism is abortive, the laws of their being not coinciding (in the early stage of the existence of the one). Instinct is either alarmed, and takes refuge in Superstition or Custom, or is left helpless to human charity, or given over to providential care. Idealism, stripped of insight and forecast, loses its serenity, becomes subject once more to the horror from which it had escaped, and by accepting its aids, forfeits the higher help of
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Faith ; aspiration, however, remaining still possible, and, thereby, slow restoration ; and also, SOMETHING BETTER. Summoned by aspiration, Faith extorts from Fear itself the saving truth to which Science continues blind, and which Idealism itself hails as its crowning acquisition, — the inestimable Proor wrought out by all labors and all conflicts.
Pending the elaboration of this proof, Conventionalism plods on, safe and complacent ; Selfish Passion perishes, grovelling and hopeless ; Instinct sleeps, in order to a loftier waking; and Idealism learns, as its ultimate lesson, that self-sacrifice is true redemption; that the region beyond the grave is the fitting one for exemption from mortal conditions ; and that Death is the everlasting portal, indicated by the finger of God, — the broad avenue through which man does not issue solitary and stealthy into the region of Free Existence, but enters triumphant, hailed by a hierarchy of immortal natures.
The result is (in other words), THat THE UNIVERSAL HuMAN Lor Is, AFTER ALL, THAT OF THE HIGHEST PRIVILEGE.
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2 ZF Zsny
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expected a weeks more. r by the borrowe ;
cents per day will be in the books is paid fo ee et
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Colusa County Free Library weeks and renewed for two If you have
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Colusa County Free Librar
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