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pure intention, are all harmonized in the acts of persevering virtue, and 
constitute an object justly considered to he of the highest order of finite 
beauty which can be contemplated in this world. 
The eloquent and philosophic Cicero, pronounced the heroic acts of 
the noble virtues to be divine, in their beauty and grandeur. 
In his oration for Marcus Marcellus he says: “The man who con¬ 
quers his own soul, he who suppresses resentment, who is moderate in 
victory, who not only raises from a fallen estate an adversary illustrious 
for his birth, his talent and his bravery, but even amplifies his former dig¬ 
nity : I do not compare the man who does these things to the greatest of 
human beings, but I judge him to be most like to a god.” 
Who cannot but think here, for instance, of Him, Who for three long 
years in meekness and gentleness went about doing good—healed the sick, 
and cleansed the lepers, and opened the eyes of the blind, and fed the 
hungry, and raised the dead, and, as Milton says, “heroically finished a 
life heroic 
Beauteous, indeed, oh, “How beauteous,” says an English poet, 
“ . . . . were the marks divine, 
That in Thy meekness used to shine, 
That lit Thy lonely pathway trod 
In wondrous love, Oh, Son of God! 
“Oh, who like Thee, so calm, so bright, 
So pure, so made to live in light ? 
Oh, who like Thee, did ever go 
So patient through a world of woe ? 
“Oh, who like Thee, so humbly bore 
The scorn, the scoffs of men, before ? 
So meek, forgiving, God-like, high, 
So beautiful in humility ?” 
-A. C. Coxe. 
