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One of his biggest fears was not being able to play the sport he loved which was basketball . It is therefore certain that there must be a being which has absolutely independent existence , and is the source of the existence of all things , whether transient or permanent , if , as Aristotle assumes . I love , indeed , to regard the dark valleys , and the gray rocks , and the waters that silently smile , and the forests that sigh in uneasy slumbers , and the proud watchful mountains that look down upon all , - - I love to regard these as themselves but the colossal members of one vast animate and sentient whole - - a whole whose form ( that of the sphere ) is the most perfect and most inclusive of all ; whose path is among associate planets ; whose meek handmaiden is the moon , whose mediate sovereign is the sun ; whose life is eternity , whose thought is that of a God ; whose enjoyment is knowledge ; whose destinies are lost in immensity , whose cognizance of ourselves is akin with our own cognizance of the animalculae which infest the brain - - a being which we , in consequence , regard as purely inanimate and material much in the same manner as these animalculae must thus regard us . Imagine , then , the state of a being which cannot fall away from the vision of this but is for ever caught to it , held by the spell of its grandeur , kept to it by virtue of a nature itself unfailing - or even the state of one that must labour towards Eternity by directed effort , but then to rest in it , immoveable at any point assimilated to it , co-eternal with it , contemplating Eternity and the Eternal by what is Eternal within the self . So charity , by the multitude of acts which it produces , imprints in us a certain facility in loving which it leaves in us even after we are deprived of its presence . This pair of counterinterpretations of modernity serves " to sharpen our understanding of the decisions we now face ; to interpret the two loves which made two cities in a form appropriate to our historical situation . The roots of political thinking are not in thoughts , but in the human being , that is , conscious being ; being which is dual in itself . The Love who is the offspring of the common Aphrodite is essentially common , and has no discrimination , being such as the meaner sort of men feel , and is apt to be of women as well as of youths , and is of the body rather than of the soul-the most foolish beings are the objects of this love which desires only to gain an end , but never thinks of accomplishing the end nobly , and therefore does good and evil quite indiscriminately . In one paragraph there are sanctified loves which move from table to table , are replaced by new sanctified loaves , and are ultimately divided amongst the priests and eaten . But in the midst of the fact that God has purposed death to glorify Himself let us not miss another clear and resounding strain which permeates the first six verses of John 11 — that is the depth of the friendship and love which existed between Jesus and Lazarus and his sisters : “ Now Jesus loved Martha , and her sister , and Lazarus ” ( John 11:5 ) . has taken on the deep hates and deep loves which America , and the world , reserve for those who dare to stand in a strong sun and cast a sharp shadow . ] ; there is no love which does not seek to impart itself , - - which would not gladly offer liberally , for the delight and enjoyment of the other , that in which the loving one himself has delight and enjoyment , and thus prove itself genuine by sacrifice [ Gen. xxiv , 22 , 53 ; xxxii , 13 sqq .; xlii , 25 ; xliii , 11 ; xlv , 22 sqq .; 1 Sam . If the Son 's work , that is , the Spirit according to them , is unknowable , the Son Himself can never be known ; He will be involved in the obscurity of that which gives evidence of Him : and if the being of the Son in this way is hidden , how can the being who is most properly such and most supreme be brought to light by means of the being which is itself hidden ; this obscurity of the Spirit is transmitted by retrogression [ 165 ] through the Son to the Father ; so that in this view , even by our adversaries ' confession , the unknowableness of the Fathers being is clearly demonstrated . The good that you love is from Him ; but it is good and pleasant through reference to Him , and justly shall it be embittered , because unjustly is any thing loved which is from Him , if He be forsaken for it . We have had an extreme complacency in perceiving that God is sovereignly good , and therefore by the love of benevolence we desire that all the loves which we can possibly imagine be employed to love this goodness properly . Herein is an inversion of the proper order of affection in that the love which is due before all else to one 's fatherland and parents should be thus poured out by a father upon his children until love of children wholly drains dry his heart , and shuts out all other affections .