Style and Ethics in George Eliot
The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it: the question, whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion ag...
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| description | The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it: the question, whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master key that will fit all cases. The casuists have become a by-word of reproach; but their perverted spirit of discrimination was the shadow of a truth to which eyes and hearts are too often fatally sealed: the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they
are checked and enlightened by a perpetual reference to the special
circumstances that mark the individual lot. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1126512022-10-01T23:03:39Z Style and Ethics in George Eliot How George Eliot Works Buzard, James Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Buzard, James Buzard, James The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it: the question, whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master key that will fit all cases. The casuists have become a by-word of reproach; but their perverted spirit of discrimination was the shadow of a truth to which eyes and hearts are too often fatally sealed: the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they are checked and enlightened by a perpetual reference to the special circumstances that mark the individual lot. 2017-12-08T15:27:56Z 2017-12-08T15:27:56Z 2017-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0275-1607 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112651 Buzard, James. "How George Eliot Works." Raritan: A Quarterly Review 36, 3 (December 2017) © 2017 Raritan Quarterly https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8220-4108 en_US https://raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/issue-index/all-volumes-issues/volume-36/volume-36-number-3 Raritan: A Quarterly Review Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Raritan Quarterly Prof. Buzard via Mark Szarko |
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