movement, of which we are now beginning to feel, in almost every direction, the inconvenience.  In all directions our habitual courses of action seem to be losing efficaciousness, credit, and control, both with others and even with ourselves; everywhere we see the beginnings of confusion, and we want a clue to some sound order and authority.  This we can only get by going back upon the actual instincts and forces which rule our life, seeing them as they really are, connecting them with other instincts and forces, and enlarging our whole view and rule of life.

NOTES

145. +Proverbs 29:18 is the source of the first passage.  I have not found the exact language of the second quotation, but the thought resembles that of Psalms 19:9-10:  “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever:  the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.  More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold:  sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”  King James Bible.

148. +Romans 3:31.  “Do we then make void the law through faith? / God forbid:  yea, we establish the law.”  King James Bible.

148. +Zechariah 9:12-13.  “Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope:  even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; / When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.”  King James Bible.

149. +Proverbs 16:22.  “Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it:  but the instruction of fools is folly.”  King James Bible.

149. +John 8:12.  “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world:  he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”  And again:  John 9:4-5.  “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:  the night cometh, when no man can work. / As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”  King James Bible.

149. +John 8:31-32.  “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; / And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  King James Bible.

149. +James 1:25.  “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”  King James Bible.

149. +Proverbs 2:20-21 may be the passage Arnold has in mind, although the language differs:  “That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. / For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.”  One of the central devices in Proverbs is the metaphor of the “path”—­of uprightness, folly, etc.  King James Bible.

150. +Romans 1:18.  “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.”  King James Bible.