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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
man vanity, in all its eternal and ineffable beauty. Seekest thou, like Pilate, after truth? Look thou within. The holy principle is there; that in whose light the pure hearts of all time have rejoiced. It is the great light of ages of which Pythagoras speaks, the good spirit of Socrates; the divine mind of Anaxagoras; the perfect principle of Plato; the infallible and immortal law, and divine power of reason of Philo. It is the unbegotten principle and source of all light, whereof Timaeus testifieth; the interior guide of the soul and everlasting foundation of virtue, spoken of by Plutarch. Yea, it was the hope and guide of those virtuous Gentiles, who, doing by nature the things contained in the law, became a law unto themselves. Look to thyself. Turn thine eye inward. Heed not the opinion of the world. Lean not upon the broken reed of thy philosophy, thy verbal orthodoxy, thy skill in tongues, thy knowledge of the Fathers. Remember that truth was seen by the humbl