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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
149
But
we
are
fronted
by
that
persistent
questioner
who
will
accept
no
a
priori
assumption,
however
noble
in
its
character
and
beneficent
in
its
tendency.
How
do
we
know
that
the
reason
of
the
Stoic
is
at
harmony
with
the
world's
law?
I,
perhaps,
may
see
life
from
a
very
different
point
of
view;
to
me
reason
may
dictate,
not
self-subdual,
but
self-indulgence;
I
may
find
in
the
free
exercise
of
all
my
passions
an
existence
far
more
consonant
with
what
seems
to
me
the
dictate
of
Nature.
I
am
proud;
Nature
has
made
me
so;
let
my
pride
assert
itself
to
justification.
I
am
strong;
let
me
put
forth
my
strength,
it
is
the
destiny
of
the
feeble
to
fall
before
me.
On
the
other
hand,
I
am
weak
and
I
suffer;
what
avails
a
mere
assertion
that
fate
is
just,
to
bring
about
my
calm
and
glad
acceptance
of
this
down-trodden
doom?
Nay,
for
there
is
that
within
my
soul
which
bids
me
revolt,
and
cry
against
the
iniquity
of
some
power
I
know
not.
Granting
that
I
am
compelled
to
acknowledge
a
scheme
of
things
which
constrains
me
to
this
or
that,
whether
I
will
or
no,
how
can
I
be
sure
that
wisdom
or
moral
duty
lies
in
acquiescence?
Thus
the
unceasing
questioner;
to
whom,
indeed,
there
is
no
reply.
For
our
philosophy
sees
no
longer
a
supreme
sanction,
and
no
longer
hears
a
harmony
of
the
universe.
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