We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
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"The Sovereignty of Ethics", in The North America Review, no. 262 (May–June 1878) p. 407