To what the old world had to say, he added Dante’s majestic commonplace: “You were not to live like brutes, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.”(54) These meditations on the human lot, on the mingling of our great hopes with the implacable realities, made the vital air in which all through his life he drew deep breath.
Morley emphasizes the importance of pursuing virtue and knowledge as essential to human existence, referencing Dante.
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