The transition from ordinary morality,--the virtue of the everyday life of human society,--to the divine aspiration of the "heroic" soul, is to be found in the virtue of _Solicitude_, and the primary triad of _Truth_, _Prudence_, and _Wisdom_. On the feet of Solicitude (Diligence, Endurance) "are the winged sandals of the divine impetus, through which she leaves beneath her the vulgar good, and contemns the soft caresses of pleasures, that, like insidious sirens, try to delay her in the pursuit of the works she seeks." On labour and fatigue she nurses the generous mind,--enables it not only to subdue itself, but to attain the highest state--that of not feeling fatigue, or pain, when fatigue or pain must be undergone. In noble work fatigue is pleasure and not fatigue to itself, but in other than in such work or virtuous activity, it is not pleasure to itself, but intolerable fatigue. "Be with me" Solicitude concludes, "generous, heroic, anxious _Fear_, stimulate me that I do not perish from the number of the illustrious before I perish from that of the living. Before torpor or death take from me my hands, grant that the glory of my works may not be in their power to take. _Anxiety_, grant that the roof be finished before the rain come: that the windows be whole before the winds of treacherous and unquiet winter blow. _Memory_ of a well-spent life, thou shalt make old age and death destroy my soul before they disturb it. Fear of losing the glory acquired in my life shall make old age and death not bitter to me, but dear and desirable." The end which this strenuous virtue seeks is that of the intellectual triad placed in the highest part of the heavens by the gods,--Truth, Prudence and Wisdom, which in reality are one and the same.[483] Truth is the unity which stands above the all of things, and the goodness which is pre-eminent over all things, for being, goodness, and truth are one:--in other words, it is the Eleatic One,--the "implicit universe,"--of the metaphysical works.[484] It is _before_ things as cause and principle, and things have dependence upon it: it is _in_ things, as their substance, and through it things subsist: it is _after_ things, for through it things are known without error. These three aspects represent metaphysical, physical, and logical truth respectively. What is presented to our senses and may be grasped by our intelligence, is not the highest truth, but only the figure, image, resplendence, or appearance of it. _Prudence_ also is both above and in us. It is above as Providence, when it is also truth itself, and there Liberty, Necessity, Essence, Entity, all are one, the Absolute. In us Prudence is the virtue of the consultative and deliberative faculty,--"it is a principal form of reason dealing with the universal and the particular,[485] has for its maid-servant _dialectics_, and for guide acquired wisdom, vulgarly called _metaphysics_, which deals with the universals of all things