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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume I/Confessions/Book XII/Chapter 3

Chapter III.—Of the Darkness Upon the Deep, and of the Invisible and Formless Earth.
3. And truly this earth was invisible and formless, and there was I know not what profundity of the deep upon which there was no light, because it had no form. Therefore didst Thou command that it should be written, that darkness was upon the face of the deep; what else was it than the absence of light? For had there been light, where should it have been save by being above all, showing itself aloft, and enlightening? Darkness therefore was upon it, because the light above was absent; as silence is there present where sound is not. And what is it to have silence there, but not to have sound there? Hast not Thou, O Lord, taught this soul which confesseth unto Thee? Hast not Thou taught me, O Lord, that before Thou didst form and separate this formless matter, there was nothing, neither colour, nor figure, nor body, nor spirit? Yet not altogether nothing; there was a certain formlessness without any shape.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Gen. i. 2, as rendered by the Old Ver. from the LXX.: ἀόρατος καὶ ἀκατασκεύαστος. Kalisch in his Commentary translates תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ: “dreariness and emptiness.”
* ↑ The reader should keep in mind in reading what follows the Manichæan doctrine as to the kingdom of light and darkness. See notes, pp. 68 and 103, above.
* ↑ Compare De Civ. Dei, xi. 9, 10.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume I/Confessions/Book XII/Chapter 28

Chapter XXVIII.—The Words, “In the Beginning,” And, “The Heaven and the Earth,” Are Differently Understood.
38. But others, to whom these words are no longer a nest, but shady fruit-bowers, see the fruits concealed in them, fly around rejoicing, and chirpingly search and pluck them. For they see when they read or hear these words, O God, that all times past and future are surmounted by Thy eternal and stable abiding, and still that there is no temporal creature which Thou hast not made. And by Thy will, because it is that which Thou art, Thou hast made all things, not by any changed will, nor by a will which before was not,—not out of Thyself, in Thine own likeness, the form of all things, but out of nothing, a formless unlikeness which should be formed by Thy likeness (having recourse to Thee the One, after their settled capacity, according as it has been given to each thing in his kind), and might all be made very good; whether they remain around Thee, or, being by degrees removed in time and place, make or undergo beautiful variations. These things they see, and rejoice in the light of Thy truth, in the little degree they here may.
39. Again, another of these directs his attention to that which is said, “In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth,” and beholdeth Wisdom,—the Beginning, because It also speaketh unto us. Another likewise directs his attention to the same words, and by “beginning” understands the commencement of things created; and receives it thus,—In the beginning He made, as if it were said, He at first made. And among those who understand “In the beginning” to mean, that “in Thy Wisdom Thou hast created heaven and earth,” one believes the matter out of which the heaven and earth were to be created to be there called “heaven and earth;” another, that they are natures already formed and distinct; another, one formed nature, and that a spiritual, under the name of heaven, the other formless, of corporeal matter, under the name of earth. But they who under the name of “heaven and earth” understand matter as yet formless, out of which were to be formed heaven and earth, do not themselves understand it in one manner; but one, that matter out of which the intelligible and the sensible creature were to be completed; another, that only out of which this sensible corporeal mass was to come, holding in its vast bosom these visible and prepared natures. Nor are they who believe that the creatures already set in order and arranged are in this place called heaven and earth of one accord; but the one, both the invisible and visible; the other, the visible only, in which we admire the luminous heaven and darksome earth, and the things that are therein.

## Footnotes

* ↑ See p. 166, note 2.
* ↑ John viii. 23.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume I/Confessions/Book XII/Chapter 23

Chapter XXIII.—Two Kinds of Disagreements in the Books to Be Explained.
32. These things, therefore, being heard and perceived according to my weakness of apprehension, which I confess unto Thee, O Lord, who knowest it, I see that two sorts of differences may arise when by signs anything is related, even by true reporters,—one concerning the truth of the things, the other concerning the meaning of him who reports them. For in one way we inquire, concerning the forming of the creature, what is true; but in another, what Moses, that excellent servant of Thy faith, would have wished that the reader and hearer should understand by these words. As for the first kind, let all those depart from me who imagine themselves to know as true what is false. And as for the other also, let all depart from me who imagine Moses to have spoken things that are false. But let me be united in Thee, O Lord, with them, and in Thee delight myself with them that feed on Thy truth, in the breadth of charity; and let us approach together unto the words of Thy book, and in them make search for Thy will, through the will of Thy servant by whose pen Thou hast dispensed them.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume I/Confessions/Book XII/Chapter 26

Chapter XXVI.—What He Might Have Asked of God Had He Been Enjoined to Write the Book of Genesis.
36. And yet, O my God, Thou exaltation of my humility, and rest of my labour, who hearest my confessions, and forgivest my sins, since Thou commandest me that I should love my neighbour as myself, I cannot believe that Thou gavest to Moses, Thy most faithful servant, a less gift than I should wish and desire for myself from Thee, had I been born in his time, and hadst Thou placed me in that position that through the service of my heart and of my tongue those books might be distributed, which so long after were to profit all nations, and through the whole world, from so great a pinnacle of authority, were to surmount the words of all false and proud teachings. I should have wished truly had I then been Moses (for we all come from the same mass; and what is man, saving that Thou art mindful of him?). I should then, had I been at that time what he was, and enjoined by Thee to write the book of Genesis, have wished that such a power of expression and such a method of arrangement should be given me, that they who cannot as yet understand how God creates might not reject the words as surpassing their powers; and they who are already able to do this, would find, in what true opinion soever they had by thought arrived at, that it was not passed over in the few words of Thy servant; and should another man by the light of truth have discovered another, neither should that fail to be found in those same words.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Ps. viii. 8.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume I/Confessions/Book XII/Chapter 27

Chapter XXVII.—The Style of Speaking in the Book of Genesis is Simple and Clear.
37. For as a fountain in a limited space is more plentiful, and affords supply for more streams over larger spaces than any one of those streams which, after a wide interval, is derived from the same fountain; so the narrative of Thy dispenser, destined to benefit many who were likely to discourse thereon, does, from a limited measure of language, overflow into streams of clear truth, whence each one may draw out for himself that truth which he can concerning these subjects,—this one that truth, that one another, by larger circumlocutions of discourse. For some, when they read or hear these words, think that God as a man or some mass gifted with immense power, by some new and sudden resolve, had, outside itself, as if at distant places, created heaven and earth, two great bodies above and below, wherein all things were to be contained. And when they hear, God said, Let it be made, and it was made, they think of words begun and ended, sounding in times and passing away, after the departure of which that came into being which was commanded to be; and whatever else of the kind their familiarity with the world would suggest. In whom, being as yet little ones, while their weakness by this humble kind of speech is carried on as if in a mother’s bosom, their faith is healthfully built up, by which they have and hold as certain that God made all natures, which in wondrous variety their senses perceive on every side. Which words, if any one despising them, as if trivial, with proud weakness shall have stretched himself beyond his fostering cradle, he will, alas, fall miserably. Have pity, O Lord God, lest they who pass by trample on the unfledged bird; and send Thine angel, who may restore it to its nest that it may live until it can fly.

## Footnotes

* ↑ “Ex familiaritate carnis,” literally, “from familiarity with the flesh.”
* ↑ “Parvulis animalibus.”
* ↑ In allusion, perhaps, to Prov. xxvii. 8: “As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.”
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume I/Confessions/Book XII/Chapter 30

Chapter XXX.—In the Great Diversity of Opinions, It Becomes All to Unite Charity and Divine Truth.
41. In this diversity of true opinions let Truth itself beget concord; and may our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity. And by this if any one asks of me, “Which of these was the meaning of Thy servant Moses?” these were not the utterances of my confessions, should I not confess unto Thee, “I know not;” and yet I know that those opinions are true, with the exception of those carnal ones concerning which I have spoken what I thought well. However, these words of Thy Book affright not those little ones of good hope, treating few of high things in a humble fashion, and few things in varied ways. But let all, whom I acknowledge to see and speak the truth in these words, love one another, and equally love Thee, our God, fountain of truth,—if we thirst not for vain things, but for it; yea, let us so honour this servant of Thine, the dispenser of this Scripture, full of Thy Spirit, as to believe that when Thou revealedst Thyself to him, and he wrote these things, he intended that which in them chiefly excels both for light of truth and fruitfulness of profit.

## Footnotes

* ↑ See p. 164, note 2, above.
* ↑ 1 Tim. i. 8.
* ↑ See p. 183, note, above; and on the supremacy of this law of love, may be compared Jeremy Taylor’s curious story (Works, iv. 477, Eden’s ed.): “St. Lewis, the king, having sent Ivo, Bishop of Chartres, on an embassy, the bishop met a woman on the way, grave, sad, fantastic, and melancholy, with fire in one hand, and water in the other. He asked what those symbols meant. She answered, ‘My purpose is with fire to burn Paradise, and with my water to quench the flames of hell, that men may serve God without the incentives of hope and fear, and purely for the love of God.’”
* ↑ See end of note 17, p. 197, below.
# Navistar International Transportation Corp. v. United States EPA

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* 858 F.2d 282
* NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION, Petitioner
* v.
* UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent
* No. 87-3474
* United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
* March 1, 1988, Argued
* September 23, 1988, Decided
* September 23, 1988, Filed
* As Amended October 13, 1988. Petition for Rehearing by the Original Hearing Panel Denied November 10, 1988.
On Petition to Review an Order form the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
James H. Schink, Jonathan B. Newcomb, Steven A. Smith, Argued, Kirkland and Ellis, Chicago, Illinois, Steven K. Covey, Navistar Int. Transportation Corp, Chicago, Illinois, Attorneys for Appellant.
Laurence M. Groner, Lee M. Thomas, EPA - General Counsel's Office Washington, District of Columbia, Pollution Control Section, Land & Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, District of Columbia, EPA - Region V, Chicago, Illinois, Karen L. Egbert [EPA], argued, Dept. of Justice, Environment Defense Sect, Washington, District of Columbia, Stephen P. Mendoza, Chicago, Illinois, Attorneys for Respondent.
Kennedy and Ryan, Circuit Judges; and Peck, Senior Circuit Judge.
# Navvies and Their Needs

NAVVIES AND THEIR NEEDS.
BY THE
REV. L. M. EVANS, B.A.,
RECTOR OF LEATHLEY.
Reprinted from the "Quiver," by permission of Messrs, Cassell, Petter, & Galpin.
LEEDS:
J. W. Petty & Sons, Printers, 14, Trinity Street.
1878.
NAVVY MISSION SOCIETY.
Secretary: Rev. James Cornford,
St. Agnesgate,
Ripon
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3
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# Navidad

From Short Stories, 1895
Navidad
By Neith Boyce
SUDDENLY over the dim city of flat roofs and gigantic palms the bells rang out far and near, silver and brazen, chiming solemnly, joyfully.
The pale light of earliest dawn began to melt through the white mists. A chill wind woke and stirred these into faint curling wreaths which at first floated close to earth, rising at last and dissolving away in the upper air like a prayer mounting into ecstasy.
Dim and silent as shadows, the devout gathered in all directions toward the church on the green plaza, whose chime of silver bells rang out its chord above the low rumbling of the organ, heralding the early Christmas mass.
The cold light gleamed on the trappings of many horses, reflected here from the gold mountingts of head-stall and reins, there from the silver lining of a red saddle whose snowy anquera descended half way to the ground. It brought out spots and dashes of brilliant color—a scarlet cloak, a green cloth flung over a bright bay horse, the canopy of a carreta, a great silken spread of blue, embroidered in purple flowers and edged with a deep gold fringe.
The townspeople, even the wealthiest families, came unostentatiously on foot And the women, doffing the silks and laces in which they had danced the night away, appeared clad religiously in black. They walked slowly, with quiet, composed faces, framed nun-like in the severe folds of black rebosos. Their downcast eyes, under whose black-fringed lids, heavy with sleep, a languid light lingered, were fixed on the silver rosaries which hung in their fingers. Their lips, curved for soft caresses, moved in soundless devotions. Demurely they passed on into the dark church.
The bells chimed out for the last time, calling those belated.
Into the sky, which had lightened from gray to pale violet, shot up broad streamers of pink, whose radiance transfigured magically everything on which it fell. The chorus of birds in the orange orchards, in the magnolia trees, in the blanches of the swaying eucalypti, became louder and more joyous; the horses lifted their heads and moved restlessly; the air grew softer, more divinely clear.
Inside the church, full of incense and the faint musky odor of women's perfumes, where the light penetrated dimly through colored windows, the priest's chanting voice rose and fell mystically; then came the murmured response and the dying notes of the organ.
In a burst of golden light the sun rode up majestically into the palpitant sky. A thousand colors, sights, scents, sounds, were born again with him. And a solitary cripple outside the door of the church, moved by some vague impulse, raised his arms in the old, the eternal gesture of adoration.
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# Nelson v. Southern Railway Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
246 U.S. 253
Nelson v. Southern Railway Company
Argued: Jan. 8, 1918. --- Decided: March 4, 1918
Nelson a civil engineer who had been in the employ of the Southern Railway eleven years, was directed to make a survey in one of its yards. While doing so he walked on the main track between the rails where he had seen others walk. As he stepped upon a cross-tie, a small V-shaped piece of it one and a half inches by six, being rotten, slivered off under his weight. His foot slipped down between the ties where the ballast was five or six inches below the top of the tie; and stumbling, he fell and disloc ted his knee. The defect in the tie could have been discovered by sounding with an iron rod and the standard of maintenance of roadbed prescribed by the Railway was to ballast to the top of the ties. But neither the condition of the tie, nor the failure to ballast to the top of the tie, was a defect of a character to impair safety in operation. Plaintiff knew that there were always some ties on the line which were partly decayed, and also that the ballast was occasionally below the top of the ties.
Upon these facts Nelson sought in a state court of North Carolina to recover damages from the Railway under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (Act April 22, 1908, c. 149, 35 Stat. 65 [Comp. St. 1916, §§ 8657-8665]). The trial court refused defendant's motion for a non-suit; and the jury rendered a verdict for plaintiff. Judgment thereon was reversed by the Supreme Court of the State (170 N. C. 170, 86 S. E. 1036) on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence; and the case came here on writ of error.
It is clear that the defendant did not fail in any duty which it owed to the plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.

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# Nemesis (Emerson)

Already blushes on thy cheek
* Nemesis in May-day and other pieces (1867)
* Nemesis in Poems (Household Edition, 1904)
# Nelson v. Southern Railway Company

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United States Supreme Court
246 U.S. 253
Nelson v. Southern Railway Company
Argued: Jan. 8, 1918. --- Decided: March 4, 1918
Mr. A. L. Brooks, of Greensboro, N. C., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Garland S. Ferguson, Jr., for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Nelson v. Woodruff

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United States Supreme Court
66 U.S. 156
Nelson v. Woodruff
These suits were brought in the District Court for the southern district of New York. They were cross-libels in personam on the same maritime contract, and the evidence was identical in both cases. Nelson and his associates were the owners of the ship Maid of Orleans, on board of which a cargo of lard in barrels and tierces was shipped at New Orleans for New York in July, 1854, consigned to Woodruff & Co., at New York. The ship-owners demanded the freight according to the bills of lading, and the consignees claimed damages for the non-delivery of a large part of the lard, which, they alleged, was lost by leakage during the voyage. The question of law raised was, whether the contract of affreightment, under the circumstances, made the ship-owners responsible for the loss.
On the hearing in the District Court, the deposition of the master of the ship was offered by the owners and objected to by the counsel of the consignees on the ground, 1. That no preliminary proof had been made of the witness's materiality. 2. That it was not sealed up; and, 3. That no notice was given of its being filed; but the commissioner who took the deposition being the clerk of the court, and the consignees' proctor knowing that the deposition had been taken, the court (Betts, J.) overruled the objections. At the argument, another objection was taken to the same deposition that the witness was interested. The court held that it was too late; it should have been made on the hearing.
After argument and consideration of the whole evidence in both cases, the District Court dismissed the libel of the consignees, and decreed in favor of the ship-owners for the freight; and these decrees being afterwards affirmed by the Circuit Court, the consignees took appeals to the Supreme Court
Mr. Dean, of New York, for the appellant, cited: Angel on Carriers, § 210; Warden vs. Greer, (6 Watts, 424;) Abbot on Shipping, 346; 1 Greenl. Ev., §§ 207, 305; Dezell vs. Odell, (3 Hill, 221;) Welland Can. Co. vs. Hathaway, (8 Wend., 483;) Bradstreet vs. Herren, (2 Blatch., 116;) Bank of Pittsburg vs. Neal, (22 How., 96;) Goodman vs. Simonds, (20 How., 363;) Clark vs. Barnwell, (12 How., 272;) Ellis vs. Willard, (5 Selden, 529.)
Mr. Goodman, of New York, for the appellees, cited: 3 Kent, 8th ed., 289; Angel on Carriers, §§ 211, 214; Clark vs. Barnwell, (12 Howard R., 272;) Downe vs. Steam Nav. Co., (5 Ellis & Bain, 195;) Trow vs. Vermont C. R. R. Co., (24 Vermont, 487;) Hawkins vs. Cooper, (8 Carr & Payne, 473;) Button vs. Hudson R. R. Co., (18 N. Y. R., 248;) Clark vs. Barnwell, (12 How. R., 272;) 2 Boulay Paty. Droit., Commercial, 309, 313; The Ship Martha, (1 Olcott Ad. R., 140;) Bradstreet vs. Herren, (1 Abbot Ad. R., 209;) Terega vs. Popp, (ib., 397;) Angel on Carriers, § 211; 3 Kent, 8th ed., 289.
Mr. Justice WAYNE.

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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume III/Moral Treatises of St. Augustin/Of Holy Virginity/Section 37

37. But regard the troops of virgins, holy boys and girls: this kind hath been trained up in Thy Church: there for Thee it hath been budding from its mother’s breasts; for Thy Name it hath loosed its tongue to speak, Thy Name, as through the milk of its infancy, it hath had poured in and hath sucked, no one of this number can say, “I, who before was a blasphemer, and persecutor, and injurious, but I obtained mercy, in that I did in being ignorant, in unbelief.” Yea more, that, which Thou commandedst not, but only didst set forth, for such as would, to seize, saying, “Whoso can receive, let him receive;” they have seized, they have vowed, and, for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, not for that Thou threatenedst, but for that Thou exhortedst, they have made themselves eunuchs. To these cry out, let these hear Thee, in that Thou art “meek and lowly of heart.” Let these, by how much they are great, by so much humble themselves in all things, that they may find grace before Thee. They are just: but they are not, are they, such as Thou, justifying the ungodly? They are chaste: but them in sins their mothers nurtured in their wombs. They are holy, but Thou art also Holy of Holies. They are virgins, but they are not also born of virgins. They are wholly chaste both in spirit and in flesh: but they are not the Word made flesh. And yet let them learn, not from those unto whom Thou forgivest sins, but from Thee Thyself, The Lamb of God Who takest away the sins of the world, in that Thou art “meek and lowly of heart.”

## Footnotes

* ↑ 1 Tim. i. 13
* ↑ Matt. xix. 12
* ↑ Ps. li. 5
* ↑ John i. 14
* ↑ John i. 29