“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”

— Robert South

Sermon preach at St. Marys, December 10, 1661, in Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions (1727), Vol. 3, p. 140

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English theologian 1634–1716

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