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There come times in the lives of all classes and races of men when they hear with perfect distinctness, the command "be ye perfect," It comes in the time of solitude when men are apt to be thinking of self and urges them to new endeavor. Moreover men are perfectly conscious that until they try to be better they have neglected the first essential to the truest type of life. Though the command is easy to hear it is often very difficult to obey. The strength of the passions is constantly at work to keep a man where...
...great trouble with a man's perfecting himself is the fact of self-consciousness. The man who aims directly at making himself perfect gets in his own way. Right here the law of indirectness begins to act. Almost all the truth comes to us indirectly. Eloquence of the highest sort expresses itself in figures of speech and poetry, especially, naturally clothes itself in metaphor. So it is with the man who seeks perfection. His seeking must be along an indirect line or it becomes mere selfishness...
...said: The dogmatic explanation of the manifestation of life is that John has seen life everlasting. This explanation, however, does not answer, for endless life can't be manifested to man. The elements referred to are the moral and spiritual elements, perfect divine humanity and perfect truth...
...have heard one or two members of the Faculty hint that some venture of the sort ought to be set on foot, and on that score feel justified in suggesting such an undertaking. The first objection to this would be that it takes an enormous amount of time to perfect anything of this sort; but who will not acknowledge that if the Dickie and Pudding private theatricals, given simply for pleasure, find generous support, a venture supported by the college, and acknowledged to be the most important event of the year, would call forth a great number...
Spenser's great work. of course, is the "Fairy Queen" which remained unfinished at his death. In it he tries to represent in an allegory a perfect gentleman in search of glory...