...crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine 80 of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble...

...and eagerly avail themselves of the lowest gibe, or the merest artifice of simulation, The straggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame. Happy is it for them, when these struggles gain the ascendancy,—when conscience, assuming the majesty...

...alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade -And shut the gates of metery The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool,...

...17. Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; 18. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To...heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride, With incense kinuled at the muse's flame. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenor...

...crimes confined; Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Atqui non illis rerum monumenta, nee amplas Temporis exuvias evoluisse datur: Frigida Paupertas generosos...

...and chronicled cycles of citizen surges; and, of course, Clark McPhail. Prologue Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray 1750) The first lines of Gray's elegy have provided...

...ideal, chose science for its own sake and regarded themselves as benefactors of mankind. They scorned To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. They did in fact use similar lofty expressions in describing their ideals. To them the word scientist...

...crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these...

...crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To...and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool...

...crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, 70 Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding...