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The Law-Breaker and the Coming of the Law, Ed. by M. Hinton
The Law-Breaker and the Coming of the Law Ed by M Hinton Author:James Hinton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: But how perfectly this question of service of God and man may be summed up in terms of art! Here is the law, " Love God perfectly ; " then to that must be added : " Also love your neighbour; secondarily, as well as you can." It is as in art, saying : " You must draw the object, the outline, exactly, perfectly, with all your effort, all your skill;" then to that you have to add: " Give atmosphere effects, a feeling of motion, of fulness and multitude; secondarily, as well as you can." And in both, how the two commands are one! Serve men wholly, and God is perfectly served : give the true effect of Nature's fulness, and the object is perfectly served. Through there being a phenomenal to us (seeming to us of course the existing till we have learnt) it must be that all truth and right, when it is truly gained, will be in a phenomenal false and wrong; will be against that which must first be felt as true and right. So worship in spirit will be phenomenal not-worship. It has been urged (arguing for a moral centred on self) that this life of man's is as an embryonic life ; very imperfect and with very ineffective functions; its chief business the perfecting of its own organs to fit it for a different condition,« less