24/28 Poets act shamelessly towards their experiences: they exploit them. "Our fellow-creature is not our neighbour, but our neighbour's neighbour":--so thinks every nation. Love brings to light the noble and hidden qualities of a lover--his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive as to his normal character. Jesus said to his Jews: "The law was for servants;--love God as I love him, as his Son! What have we Sons of God to do with morals!" 165. IN SIGHT OF EVERY PARTY .-- A shepherd has always need of a bell-wether--or he has himself to be a wether occasionally. |