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The latter are Kant's views; to me
But it will come, they feel, elsewhere,
And in that hope to live
They say all can be said,
They cover, far as I can see,
They have a strength and power to bear
All I have thought or read.
Which nothing else can give.
Grounds for a future life they give
Why should they not, when all things here
On which I can rely,
Are means unto an end,
Content in that belief to live,
That to a purpose, it is clear,
In that belief to die.
They all were made and tend ?
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The nature of that future state
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We never here can know ;
To this, why should the moral law
So on it I may not dilate,
A sole exception be ?
Nor further thought bestow.
Why should we that conclusion draw
Enough for me, that, without fear,
From all we know and see ?
My thoughts will ever tend
For why should virtue it commend,
To strictly do my duty here
And all it has instilled,
And calmly wait the end.
If its assurance, in the end,
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May never be fulfilled?
One final word remains to say,
That all, I hope, may share
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The right to follow their own way
In worship and in prayer,
Virtue should have what it deserves:
Acting according to their light,
A feeling that's innate,
And being thus sincere*
A thought that the belief preserves,
No one with them should have the right
That there's a future state.
Or power to interfere.
If there is not, we well might pause,
* The present Pope, Leo XIII., has said, from a religious
And find that we are driven
point of view, the broadest thing, perhaps, ever uttered by an
To ask, why do we have these laws ?
ecclesiastic. He asked a French gentleman, a friend of
Renan's, if Renan had died impenitent. The gentleman re-
For what then were they given ?
plied that he had, upon which the Pope said, "I'm glad to
hear it, for that shows that he was sincere, and God will judge
him by his sincerity."
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