Charity (Whitehead) n. 107

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107. (IV.) A man is such a form of charity so far as good of the will is conjoined with truths of the understanding in him. All that is of the will is called good, and all that is of the understanding is called truth; because the will is in the heat of heaven, and the understanding in the light of heaven. And as will without understanding has no quality, and cannot therefore be called anything, but takes on its quality and becomes something in the understanding, and becomes such or such, or becomes something or anything, according to what is in the understanding, just so it is with good without truth and good with truth.


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