THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE

70The Harmony of Virtueducts for stoical virtue-ridden Rome, when we know that Tiberiuswas a Claudius, one of the great Italian houses renownedfor its licence, cruelty, pride and genius, and Calligula the sonand Nero the grandson of Germanicus, who drew his blood fromMark Antony. Science is right in its materialist data, though notalways in the inferences it draws from them and when she tellsus that nothing proceeds from nothingness and that for everyeffect there is a cause and for every growth a seed, we mustremember that her truths apply as much to the spiritual as to thematerial world. Mommsen has said rightly that without passionthere is no genius. We shall not gather beauty from ugliness, norintellect from a slow temperament, nor fiery passion from disciplinedapathy, but in all things shall reap as we sow, and mustsow the wind before we can reap the whirlwind.”(Incomplete)