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Show Life is controlled by its dominant ino- I live. Man acts from motives. A ma- j chine goes from outward compulsion,!' but in min motive is the internal rea- son pushing him en tc a decision, and the moral quality of an act depends ! upon the motive back of it. An out- ( wardly good and successful life be- comes unattractive and defective un- I less impelled by true and lofty motives, 1 while a well-intentioned and blunder- f ing life becomes covered with moral 5 beauty if the motives be high and holy. . Browning has expressed the thought in this Yms. '"Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do," or, as he puts it in this couplet: . "What I aspired to be, . And was not, comforts me." " |