Essays and sketches . nsof good as well as evil, and that of course they shouldsecure the good and avoid the evil. But this is not thereal ground of their zeal; otherwise they would beeealous in behalf of health, temperance, and honesty,good-humour, fair dealing, generosity, sincerity, publicvirtue, and everything else that advances the good ofmankind. No ; it is the pure, blind love of power, andthe craving of weakness to be filled with it. Allow-ance should be made for much of it, as it is the naturalabuse in a country where the most obvious power iscommercial; and the blindest love of power
Essays and sketches . nsof good as well as evil, and that of course they shouldsecure the good and avoid the evil. But this is not thereal ground of their zeal; otherwise they would beeealous in behalf of health, temperance, and honesty,good-humour, fair dealing, generosity, sincerity, publicvirtue, and everything else that advances the good ofmankind. No ; it is the pure, blind love of power, andthe craving of weakness to be filled with it. Allow-ance should be made for much of it, as it is the naturalabuse in a country where the most obvious power iscommercial; and the blindest love of power, after all(let them be told this secret for the comfort of humannature), is an instinct of sympathy—is founded on whatothers will think of us, and what means we shall find inour hands for adding to our importance. It is thisvalue for one anothers opinion which keeps abuses solong in existence ; but it is in the same corner of thehuman heart, now that reform has begun, that the salva-tion of the world will be THE \^ORLDSCLASSICS 3 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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