“I think he was a philosopher,” said Virginia.
“No,” Marian answered, “he just gathered a lot of bromidic proverbs, that were as old as the world, and said them over in an impressive way.”
“But they were philosophical,” Virginia protested.
“No,” said Marian, “I don’t think so. They were scientific, for they dealt with little disjointed parts of life.”
I told them I wanted to paraphrase a certain verse in the Bible, the verse:
“Faith, Hope and Charity, but the greatest of these is Charity.”
“How?” asked Ruth, much interested.
“I would say,” I went on, “‘Truth, Goodness and Beauty, but the greatest of these is Beauty’—because it includes the other two.”
Now I changed the first law into terms of life:
“Life is a symbol of the complete Self, in a definite shape.”