[431] See Sweetness and Light, Selections, Note 1, p. 244. [Transcriber’s note:  This is Footnote 392 in this e-text.] Maxim 452 reads:  “Two things a Christian will never do—­never go against the best light he has, this will prove his sincerity, and, 2, to take care that his light be not darkness, i.e., that he mistake not his rule by which he ought to go.”

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[432] 2 Pet.  I, 4.

[433] Frederick William Robertson (1816-53) began his famous ministry at Brighton in 1847.  He was a man of deep spirituality and great sincerity.  The latter part of his life was clouded by opposition roused by his sympathy with the revolutionary ideas of the 1848 epoch and by the mental trouble which eventually resulted in his death.  The sermon referred to seems to be the first Advent Lecture on The Greek.  Arnold objects to Robertson’s rather facile summarizing.  Four characteristics are mentioned as marking Grecian life and religion:  restlessness, worldliness, worship of the beautiful, and worship of the human.  The second of these has three results, disappointment, degradation, disbelief in immortality.

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[434] Heinrich Heine.  See Heine, Selections, pp. 112-144. [Transcriber’s note:  This section begins at the text reference for Footnote 135 in this e-text.]

[435] Prov.  XXIX, 18.

[436] Ps.  CXII, 1.

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[437] Rom.  III, 31.

[438] Zech.  IX, 13.

[439] Prov.  XVI, 22.

[440] John I, 4-9; 8-12; Luke II, 32, etc.

[441] John VIII, 32.

[442] Nichomachaean Ethics, bk.  II, chap.  III.

[443] Jas. I, 25.

[444] Discourses of Epictetus, bk.  II, chap.  XIX, trans.  Long, I, 214 ff.

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[445] Learning to die.  Arnold seems to be thinking of Phaedo, 64, Dialogues, II, 202:  “For I deem that the true votary of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men; they do not perceive that he is always pursuing death and dying; and if this be so, and he has had the desire of death all his life long, why when his time comes should he repine at that which he has been always pursuing and desiring?” Plato goes on to show that life is best when it is most freed from the concerns of the body.  Cf. also Phaedrus (Dialogues, II, 127) and Gorgias (Dialogues, II, 369).

[446] 2 Cor.  V, 14.

[447] See Aristotle, Nichomachaean Ethics, bk.  X, chaps.  VIII, IX.

[448] Phaedo, 82D, Dialogues, I, 226.

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[449] Xenophon’s Memorabilia, bk.  IV, chap.  VIII, Sec. 6.