
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 3.
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
“They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.”
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 151
“The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.”
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart
Context: The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are usually not realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. The philosopher Hegel said that truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in the emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
“Brave men are brave from the very first.”
Les hommes valeureux le sont du premier coup.
Chimène, act II, scene iii.
Le Cid (1636)