glyph 264: personal integrity, personal knowledge, intuition of character ... law, rule, order, sense of natural values ... Charles Morgan, novelist, novel, The Voyage ... Mary McDermott Shideler, Consciousness of Battle

Found in Consciousness of Battle, by Mary McDermott Shideler, taken from The Voyage (London: Macmillan, 1940), by Charles Morgan (English novelist).

It was the essence of Barbet's nature that he lived by no rules and yet had order within him, the order not of submission to laws or conformity to the ideas of others but to his own sense of natural values. And yet, Courcelet said to himself, of what use is it to say that? A rebel, a man of anarchical mind, any vague and paltry upstart who wished to be conspicuous in his defiances, might claim to have "his own sense of natural values." The phrase is just a phrase — with truth in it if you know the man, but, if not, meaningless.

"... this scrupulous craftsmanship, this discipline, that puts his writings, whether fiction or non-fiction, among the finest that twentieth-centuryÊ prose style has to offer." — "In Memoriam Charles Morgan, 6 February 1958," by Roger Kuin

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