give to the
doctrine of original sin, making a sort of meanness and badness a law
of society.--MOZLEY, _Letters_, 333. Les critiques, meme malveillants,
sont plus pres de la verite derniere que les admirateurs.--NISARD,
_Lit. fr._, Conclusion. Les hommes superieurs doivent necessairement
passer pour mechants. Ou les autres ne voient ni un defaut, ni un
ridicule, ni un vice, leur implacable oeil l'apercoit.--BARBEY
D'AUREVILLY, _Figaro_, March 31, 1888.

[101] Prenons garde de ne pas trop expliquer, pour ne pas
fournir des arguments a ceux qui veulent tout excuser.--BROGLIE,
_Reception de Sorel_, 46.

[102] The eternal truths and rights of things exist,
fortunately, independent of our thoughts or wishes, fixed as
mathematics, inherent in the nature of man and the world. They are no
more to be trifled with than gravitation.--FROUDE, _Inaugural Lecture
at St. Andrews_, 1869, 41. What have men to do with interests? There
is a right way and a wrong way. That is all we need think
about.--CARLYLE to FROUDE, _Longman's Magazine_, Dec. 1892, 151. As to
History, it is full of indirect but very effective moral teaching. It
is not only, as Bolingbroke called it, "Philosophy teaching by
examples," but it is morality teaching by examples.--It is essentially
the study which best helps the student to conceive large thoughts.--It
is impossible to overvalue the moral teaching of History.--FITCH,
_Lectures on Teaching_, 432. Judging from the past history of our
race, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, war is a folly and a
crime.--Where it is so, it is the saddest and the wildest of all
follies, and the most heinous of all crimes.--GREG, _Essays on
Political and Social Science_, 1853, i. 562. La volonte de tout un
peuple ne peut rendre juste ce qui est injuste: les representants
d'une nation n'ont pas le droit de faire ce que la nation n'a pas le
droit de faire elle-meme.--B. CONSTANT, _Principes de Politique_, i.
15.

[103] Think not that morality is ambulatory; that vices in
one age are not vices in another, or that virtues, which are under the
everlasting seal of right reason, may be stamped by opinion.--SIR
THOMAS BROWNE, _Works_, iv. 64.

[104] Osons croire qu'il seroit plus a propos de mettre de
cote ces traditions, ces usages, et ces coutumes souvent si
imparfaites, si contradictoires, si incoherentes, ou de ne les
consulter que pour saisir les inconveniens et les eviter; et qu'il
faudroit chercher non-seulement les elem