[540] Lacordaire, a biographical sketch, H. S. Lear, p. 34.
[541] Wordsworth, The Excursion. Ep. ad Diog. v. πᾶσα ξένη πατρίς ἐστιν αὐτῶν, καὶ πᾶσα πατρὶς ξένη. This spirit does not exclude a true patriotism, and other civil virtues. Martensen, Ethics (Social), § 82.
[542] De mor. Eccl. xxxvii and xxv. Cp. Bern. de Consid. v. 1.
[543] See the chap. with this title in Ecce Homo.
[544] S. Matt. v. 44 foll. Leo, Serm. in Quad. vii. 'Forma conversationis fidelium ab exemplo venit operum divinorum et merito Deus imitationem Sui ab eis exigit, quos ad imaginem et similitudinem suam fecit.' Cp. Iren. iv. 13. 3.
[545] Ecce Homo, c. xxii. Cp. Butler, Serm. ix. etc.
[546] Leo, Serm. in Quad., passim, esp. v, vi, ix. Ecce Homo, c. xxiii. For what follows, see Arist. Eth. v. 10. Cp. Eph. iv. 32.
[547] Mozley, Univ. Serm. ix. 'Ancient philosophy never opened the mine of happiness which lay in this principle. It was a discovery, like that of a new scientific principle, when it was made; and Christianity made it.'
[548] Rom. xiii. 10. Note the following words of S. Aug. (de doct. Christ. i. 29): 'Velle debemus, ut omnes nobiscum diligant Deum, et totum quod vel eos adjuvamus vel adjuvamur eis, ad unum illum finem referendum est.... Hinc efficitur ut inimicos etiam nostros diligamus.... Misereamur, quia tanto magis nos oderunt, quanto ab illo quem diligimus separati sunt.' Cp. de disc. Chr. v. 'Necesse est ut quem diligis tanquam te ipsum, illuc illum trahas ad quod et tu amas.' Ecce Homo, cc. xvii, xviii.
[549] Tert. Apol. 36.