Note 70 — X. COMENIUS. (1592-1671).
Reading edition
Unum Necessarium, quoted by Raumer.
Compare George Eliot: “By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are part of the Divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.”—Middlemarch, bk. iv, p. 308 of first edition.