Precept and Practice – JULY 28 – Tyranny

Family ties and duties, blessed though they usually are, must not be turned into idols or suffered to hamper the ‘clear spirit’ in its ascent to God.   There is such a thing as the tyranny of family just as there is of social usage or public opinion, and from each and all of these our Lord would set men free. 

(The Reverend Henry Latham – Pastor Pastorum)

Tyranny is always weakness.

(J. R. Lowell)

Tyranny induces deceit and it also engenders a desire to tyrannise.

(Edna Lyall)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW