{"id":78,"date":"2015-11-10T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newellpoems.library.okstate.edu\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2017-08-29T18:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:47:06","slug":"a-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newellpoems.library.okstate.edu\/index.php\/a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n

The great creator gave to Brutes the light<\/a>
\nof sense and natural instinct, that might
\nConduct him in a sensual life; by this
\nThey steer their course, and very rarely miss
\nTheir instituted Rule<\/a>, nor yet reject
\nIts guidance, or its influence neglect:
\nBut the Creator’s great beneficence
\nGave unto man, besides the light of sense
\nThe nobler light of Reason Intellect,
\nAnd Conscience to govern and direct
\nHis life and Actions1<\/a> <\/sup><\/a>, and to keep at rights
\nThe motions of his Sensual Appetite:2<\/a> <\/sup><\/a>
\nBut wretched man unhappily deserts
\nHis makers Institution, and perverts.<\/a>
\nThe end of all his bounty, prostitutes
\nHis reason unto Lust, and so polutes
\nHis noble soul, his Reason, and his wit<\/a>:
\nAnd intellect, that in the throne should sit
\nMust lackey<\/a> after Lust, and to fulfill
\nThe base commands and pleasure of her will
\nAnd thus the Humane nature great Advance
\nBecomes its greater ruine, doth inhance.<\/a>
\nIts Guilt, While Judgment, Reason, Wit
\nImprove<\/a> those very sins it doth commit.
\nDear Lord, Thy mercy surely must overflow,
\nThat pardons sins, which from thy bounty grow.<\/p>\n

by Sir Matthew Hale as transcribed by Elizabeth Newell<\/p>\n

Footnotes<\/p>\n

<\/a>1<\/sup> The doctrine holds that human beings require a special divine assistance in their ordinary cognitive activities. Back to text.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pasnau, Robert, “Divine Illumination”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)<\/p>\n

<\/a>2<\/sup> Some agents, having reached a decision about what to do on a particular occasion, experience some counter-pressure brought on by an appetite for pleasure, or anger, or some other emotion; and this countervailing influence is not completely under the control of reason. (1) Within this category, some are typically better able to resist these counter- rationale pressures than is the average person. Back to text.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kraut, Richard, “Aristotle’s Ethics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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