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Excerpt from The Advantages and Disadvantages of Charitable Endowments, Especially for Purposes of Education: A Prize Essay Read in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20th, 1860
Bstanding, or intellectual element, accurate as far as it goes, but confined to a narrow sphere, enouncing the laws of phenomena; the emotions, or moral ele ment, though unable to refute the understanding, yet often rebelling against its decisions, and often rightly - feeling the relations of man to man in a truer way than the understanding can see them.
Intellect is the clearer and more impartial; but feeling is both subtler and wider.
Most of the social institutions which we inherit from the middle ages, must be regarded as the out growth of the Feelings, each called into being by natural human impulse, and harmonized into a whole as well as might be by the prevalence of sentimental ideas, each as chivalry, loyalty, the law of honour. Each institution had its own end and was good as it fulfilled this. Religion is a good thing, said they, let it be endowed; starvation is bad for the button sellers, let them be protected. We see the end selected as good by the common verdict of the times, then the simplest means adopted to secure that end; and by the intuitive true insight of the emotions the system worked well for a time, it had a root in the human nature of that age at least.
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