Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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    It is from them, therefore, that we have to quote to sliow how common is this estimate of the principle. Fendalism as an ordered commimity being based on the social and individual recognition of Degree as a vital principle ol the State and Nature, it is natural that Shakespeare should have constantly ap|>ealed to this principle both casually and deliberately. The most comprehensive statement of it by him is to be found in Troi/us and Cressida, when chaos having invaded the Grecian camp, because the leaders have temporailly relaxed the discipline of the camp in a long and weary siege, the operations of the Greeks end in re])eated di.saster. A council being called to consider the situation, Agamemnon and Nestor rise in turn and deliver their views. Ulysses, who then rises, after complimenting the previous two, to conceal the fact that he is going to show them that they have not mentioned the real cause of the trouble, proceeds to dilate and amplify, ap})ealing to nature for his authority, just as Fanerson does in his frequent statement of the same principle, on the supreme importance ol this recMjgnition of the degrees nature has established between men. Act T. -Scene III. 'fi'oy, yet upon his basis, had been down. And the great Hector’s sword had lacked a master, but tor these instances. 'I'he speciality of rule hath been neglected :