Rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith and trimmed its fire,
Showed me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze and there aspire.Matthew Arnold
Quoted at the start of chapter three in David Hick’s Norms and Nobility (36).
not even Solomon in all his glory • surrounded by goodness, beauty and truth
Rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith and trimmed its fire,
Showed me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze and there aspire.Matthew Arnold
Quoted at the start of chapter three in David Hick’s Norms and Nobility (36).
