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On Doing Nothing in Particular

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

That is how St Paul speaks of the plan of redemption to his converts at Corinth. And now here is Shakespeare showing man as instrumental in ‘declaring the glory of the Lord'. It is a passage from King Lear where the king, cast out into the storm by his unnatural daughters, sees, for the first time it may be, the close kinship of us all.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1962 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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1 Based on a talk given to a group of people concerned with the idea of Secular Institutes.