This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... IX. HUMILITY. IT may be doubted whether essays or sermons on particular virtues and their contrary vices are not more consonant with Greek or Jewish systems of ethics than with Christianity. The New Testament does not encourage us to specialise in any one virtue. The question, "What is the great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... IX. HUMILITY. IT may be doubted whether essays or sermons on particular virtues and their contrary vices are not more consonant with Greek or Jewish systems of ethics than with Christianity. The New Testament does not encourage us to specialise in any one virtue. The question, "What is the great commandment of the Law?" was, there is reason to believe, familiar to Jewish casuists; but our Lord's answer, that Love is the great commandment, teaches us that all the virtues must spring from one root, the various graces being merely the flowers, which bloom either successively or simultaneously, on the single stem of the Christlike character. The negative side of this truth is stated rather harshly by St. James, when he says that "whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all." This is affirming the solidarity of the Christian character in an uncompromising fashion; perhaps we might venture to say, judging from our own observation, that St. James' rule has exceptions. There are a few virtues which seem able to flourish, in a fashion, alone. Generosity and good nature, even real kindheartedness, are sometimes found in a character which is morally foul; and a strict sense of duty may survive in a hard, uncharitable, morose nature. But there are other virtues which simply cannot exist except as influences pervading the entire character. They so entwine themselves with the whole man that they cannot be treated as isolated qualities. In particular, there are two graces--perhaps more closely connected than appears at first sight -- which are entirely spoilt by isolating them for the purpose of analysis. It is difficult to say whether self-conscious humility or self-conscious purity is the more odious...
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