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Show virtue, are the influx from thence. Vice is the Gasay o absence or departure of the same. Nothing, Compengatio Falsehood, may indeed stand as the grea Night or shade on which, as a background the living universe paints itself forth; bu no fact is begotten by it; it cannot work for it is not. It cannot work any good; i cannot work any harm. It is harm, inasmuc as it is worse not to be than to be We feel defrauded of the retribution due t evil acts, because the criminal adheres t his vice and contumacy, and does not com to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visibl nature. There is no stunning confutatio of his nonsense before men and angels Has he, therefore, outwitted the law? Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and th lie with him, he so far deceases from nature In some manner there will be a demonstration of the wrong to the understandin also; but, should we not see it, this deadl deduction makes square the eternal account q Neither can it be said, on the other hand that the gain of rectitude must be bough 3 Digital Image © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rights reserved |