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who , true to their own nature , act up to their convictions . f Assume a virtue though you have it not , is of all maxims the most fatal to fiitue . * Try all things / is the only direction that can guide us to the wisdom whose ways are pleasantness , and all whose paths are peace . The boundaries of right and wrong are fixed by immutable decree ; those boundaries are not always clear to our eyes ; but when we err , the consequences of our errors make the truth that we have erred feelingly known to us . If it were not so , I should have no more faith in any thing : the earth would be to me a wandering ball without a guide , without a course , even its wretched inhabitants being left to be the sport of our wayward ,
g limmering , vagrant fancies . If the Prodigal Son had been allowed to work out his life with zestful delight , or could have felt content with his degradation in feeding swine , I should say , There is no God ;* but , on the contrary , there is a hand which stopt his useless career , and inflicted a pain that brought him to the resolution , * I will arise and go to my father ;* and how much nobler a being was that than the son whose soul had narrowed into the forms
established by worldly wisdom ! Let men * try all things ; ' sooner (or later they will conform voluntarily and intelligently to the laws of virtue established by Omniscience ; for it is hard to kick against the pricks / and pricks there always are in the path of the sinner .
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Plato ' s Dialogue * ; tJuGcrgias . 691
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Tub dialogue on which we are now about to enter is among the most celebrated of Plato ' s works , and deserves peculiar attention , as one of those on which his fame a 9 an ethical writer is principally founded . The perusal of it is well fitted to suggest many reflections on the nature of ethical writing in general , and on the principles by which out estimation of a moralist ought to be guided ; for some of which reflections
* c may , perhaps , find room at the conclusion of this notice . We shall bow , without further delay , introduce the reader to Plato himself ; merel y premising as to the tendencies of the dialogue , that its whole drift and scope is to discredit mere worldly-minded men , and the teachers ° f those arts , or rather pursuits , ( for our author uniformly refuses to them the name of arts , ) which conduce only to worldly success ; and to
^ rorce , by all manner ot considerations , the superior dignity and eligt-Nlity of a virtuous life , compared with the most successful achievements ° f * life of mere ambition , in which no moral obligations are recognized , w in which , if recognized , they are not regarded . A » this dialogue is one of the finest specimens both of Plato ' s dialectical P ^ ers , and of his extraordinary dramatic talent , our abstract of it *¦ be fuller than usual .
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NOTES ON SOME OF THE MORE POPULAR DIALOGUES OF PLATO , No . III . The Gorgias .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 691, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/15/
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