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and to all the worldly great.
The greatness of wisdom, which is nothing if not of God, is invisible to the
carnal-minded and to the clever. These are three orders differing in kind.
Great geniuses have their power, their glory, their greatness, their
victory, their lustre, and have no need of worldly greatness, with which
they are not in keeping. They are seen, not by the eye, but by the mind;
this is sufficient.
The saints have their power, their glory, their victory, their lustre, and
need no worldly or intellectual greatness, with which they have no affinity;
for these neither add anything to them, nor take away anything from them.
They are seen of God and the angels, and not of the body, nor of the curious
mind. God is enough for them.
Archimedes, apart from his rank, would have the same veneration. He fought
no battles for the eyes to feast upon; but he has given his discoveries to
all men. Oh! how brilliant he was to the mind!
Jesus Christ, without riches and without any external exhibition of
knowledge, is in His own order of holiness. He did not invent; He did not
reign. But He was humble, patient, holy, holy to God, terrible to devils,
without any sin. Oh! in what great pomp and in what wonderful splendour He
is come to the eyes of the heart, which perceive wisdom!
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