SOME "OBITER DICTA."
The strait-laced Anglican theology of the eighteenth century had no room for an immanent God.
The deist of the eighteenth century is the forbear of the athiest of today.
The Roman nobility was a model of all that an aristocracy ought not to be. They had few duties and wanted none. Carlyle had all the faith of tho Hebrew prophets without their hope. Shakespeare had no philosophy of life. He looked at life, saw real things in it, and painted what he saw.
Montaigne and Pascal, tho two eternal types, between whom men of letters pass to and fro in ceaseless flux.
Faith is necessary because sight is unattainable.
There is nothing in the world to equal the strong man who has not grown hard. While persecution is always bad, intolerance of vice and of the opinions which promote vice is the life-blood of a healthy society. If there is one lesson written large on the page of history, it is that power cannot be safely entrusted to men absolutely, neither to the one nor to the many.—-Algernon Cecil.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 314, 23 November 1910, Page 2
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182SOME "OBITER DICTA." King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 314, 23 November 1910, Page 2
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