id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17172 Brown, John Crombie The Ethics of George Eliot's Works .txt text/plain 29116 1087 63 happiness" in humanity which expresses the true link between man and God. The practical doctrine that with them underlies all others is, "Love not human frailty that is not vitally base and self-seeking, in subtle power as asserting and illustrating the highest life of humanity, as a true Divine law of life, and its only true fulfilment; self-sacrifice, not in true fulfilment of that Christian life whose great law is love. faithful to the highest good which life shall place before her. loving heart turns again and again to the thought of human sorrow and father's love and trust, but--her own deepest and truest life. joy of the love which is entwined with her life, or the turning away from the two great antagonistic principles of human life--self-pleasing and far higher instincts and aims of life cannot accept her as an aid and human self-love. ./cache/17172.txt ./txt/17172.txt