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The Complete Works of Whittier

CHAPTER VI
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The holy principle is there; that in whose light the pure hearts of all time have rejoiced.

It is 'the great light of ages' of which Pythagoras speaks, the 'good spirit' of Socrates; the 'divine mind' of Anaxagoras; the 'perfect principle' of Plato; the 'infallible and immortal law, and divine power of reason' of Philo.

It is the 'unbegotten principle and source of all light,' whereof Timmus testifieth; the 'interior guide of the soul and everlasting foundation of virtue,' spoken of by Plutarch.
Yea, it was the hope and guide of those virtuous Gentiles, who, doing by nature the things contained in the law, became a law unto themselves.
"Look to thyself.

Turn thine eye inward.

Heed not the opinion of the world.


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