THE LAW OF HUMAN LIFE IS GROWTH: THE DESIRE AND AIM OF LIFE IS TRUTH: THE DOOM OF HUMANITY IS ASCENSION TOWARD GOD. For us 'politics' is the science of life here below. Its problem is the organization of the State, of human association,-looking toward the ideal which man is pursuing, and which by every epoch is revealed to us more beautiful, more grand, more divine. Its starting-point is the indefinite educability of the human race,-its road a continuous progress toward God, toward the discovery and application of his law,-with Belief, Faith, for its stay and sanction. We would found Republics in order that the republican virtues, which a monarchical education could not produce, may germinate and become rooted in the hearts of the citizens.-Mazzini. He who wisely would restrain the reasonable Soul of Man within due bounds must first himself know perfectly how far the territory and dominion extends of just and honest Liberty. As little must he offer to bind that which God hath loosened, as to loosen that which God hath bound. The ignorance and mistake of this high point hath heaped up one huge half of all the misery that hath been since Adam.-Milton. Liberty is a religion: which should ennoble its followers; and, like Christianity in its earlier days, make of the slave a free man, of the free man a saint or a martyr.--George Sand. THE SWORD OF THE LORD AND OF GIDEON! |