 The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola — the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended and where the sacredness...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 233edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1904 - 316 pages
...been but that abandonment working itself out to the most hideous extreme of falsity and ingratitude ? To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments...that may yet fall if the warrant has been false." The whole teaching of the book is summed up in the Epilogue. In the conversation between Romola and... | |
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...been but that abandonment working itself out to the most hideous extreme of falsity and ingratitude ? To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments...that may yet fall if the warrant has been false." The whole teaching of the book is summed up in the Epilogue. In the conversation between Romola and... | |
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...it is true, may be sacred also. There are moments of life "when the soul must dare to act upon its warrant, not only without external law to appeal to,...that may yet fall if the warrant has been false." These moments, however, are of rare occurrence, and arise only in extreme necessity.... "If the past... | |
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