Whom do you count the worst man upon earth?

Be sure, he knows, in his conscience, more

Of right what is, than arrives at birth

In the best man's acts that we bow before:

This last knows better—true, but my fact is,

'Tis one thing to know, and another to practise.

And thence I conclude that the real God-function

Is to furnish a motive and injunction

For practising what we know already.

And such an injunction and such a motive