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	Moral Dread

abailart

10-19-2008 11:34 AM

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moral dread, george eliot

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"That guardianship may become needless; but only when all outward law has become needless - only when duty and love have united in one stream and made a common force"

George Eliot, Romola

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mind was destitute of that dread which has been
erroneously decried as if it were nothing higher than a man's
animal care for his own skin: that awe of the Divine
Nemesis which was felt by religious pagans, and, though it
took a more positive form under Christianity, is still felt
by the mass of mankind simply as a vague fear at anything
which is called wrong-doing. Such terror of the unseen is
so far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate
that cowardice: it is the initial recognition of a moral law
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imperfect thought into obligations which can never be
proved to have any sanctity in the abscnce of feeling. 'It
is good,' sing the old Eumenides, in Aeschylus, 'that fear
should sit as the guardian of the soul, forcing it into wisdom -
good that men should carry a threatening shadow in their
hearts under the full sunshine; else, how should they learn
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