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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
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"He
that
is
unjust
is
also
impious.
For
the
Nature
of
the
Universe,
having
made
all
reasonable
creatures
one
for
another,
to
the
end
that
they
should
do
one
another
good;
more
or
less,
according
to
the
several
persons
and
occasions;
but
in
no
wise
hurt
one
another;
it
is
manifest
that
he
that
doth
transgress
against
this
her
will,
is
guilty
of
impiety
towards
the
most
ancient
and
venerable
of
all
the
Deities."
How
gladly
would
I
believe
this!
That
injustice
is
impiety,
and
indeed
the
supreme
impiety,
I
will
hold
with
my
last
breath;
but
it
were
the
merest
affectation
of
a
noble
sentiment
if
I
supported
my
faith
by
such
a
reasoning.
I
see
no
single
piece
of
strong
testimony
that
justice
is
the
law
of
the
universe;
I
see
suggestions
incalculable
tending
to
prove
that
it
is
not.
Rather
must
I
apprehend
that
man,
in
some
inconceivable
way,
may
at
his
best
moments
represent
a
Principle
darkly
at
strife
with
that
which
prevails
throughout
the
world
as
known
to
us.
If
the
just
man
be
in
truth
a
worshipper
of
the
most
ancient
of
Deities,
he
must
needs
suppose,
either
that
the
object
of
his
worship
belongs
to
a
fallen
dynasty,
or--what
from
of
old
has
been
his
refuge--that
the
sacred
fire
which
burns
within
him
is
an
"evidence
of
things
not
seen."
What
if
I
am
incapable
of
either
supposition?
There
remains
the
dignity
of
a
hopeless
cause--"sed
victa
Catoni."
But
how
can
there
sound
the
hymn
of
praise?
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