"And perfect the day shall be, when it is of all men understood that the beauty of Holiness must be in labor as well as in rest. Nay! more, if it may be, in labor; in our strength, rather than in our weakness; and in the choice of what we shall work for through the six days, and may know to be good at their evening time, than in the choice of what we pray for on the seventh, of reward or repose. With the multitude that keep holiday, we may perhaps sometimes vainly have gone up to the house of the Lord, and vainly there asked for what we fancied would be mercy; but for the few who labor as their Lord would have them, the mercy needs no seeking, and their wide home no hallowing. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow them, all the days of their life, and they shall dwell in the house of the Lord--For Ever."[51] FOOTNOTES: [44] "Vulgarly"; the use of the word "scientia," as if it differed from "knowledge," being a modern barbarism; enhanced usually by the assumption that the knowledge of the difference between acids and alkalies is a more respectable one than that of the difference between vice and virtue. [45] _Modern Painters_, volume iii. I proceed in my old words, of which I cannot better the substance, though--with all deference to the taste of those who call that book my best--I could, the expression. [46] The _third_ edition was published in 1846, while the Pre-Raphaelite School was still in swaddling clothes. [47] These essays were, "Recent Attacks on Political Economy," by Robert Lowe, and "Virchow and Evolution," by Prof. Tyndall,--ED. [48] James of Quercia: see the rank assigned to this master in _Ariadne Florentina_. The best photographs of the monument are, I believe, those published by the Arundel Society; of whom I would very earnestly request that if ever they quote _Modern Painters_, they would not interpolate its text with unmarked parentheses of modern information such as "emblem of conjugal fidelity." I must not be made to answer for either the rhythm or the contents of sentences thus manipulated. [49] I foolishly, in _Modern Painters_, used the generic word "hound" to make my sentence prettier. He is a flat-nosed bulldog.