BOOK III.
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DEVELOPMENT AND ARREST OF DEVELOPMENT.
Fury: Blood thou canst see, and fire; and canst hear groans;— Worse things, unheard, unseen, remain behind.
Prometheus: Worse?
Fury: In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged. The loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and Custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. The good want power but to weep barren tears: The powerful goodness want,—worse need for them: The wise want love: and those who love want wisdom: And all best things are thus confused to ill. Many are strong and rich and would be just, But live among their suffering fellow-men As if none felt: they know not what they do.
—Prometheus Unbound