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Quotation from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I) by Richard Hooker
“And the light of that eye, is reason. So that two principal fountains there are of human action, Knowledge and Will;”
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I), Book I, ch. VII (Everyman's Library printing, Internet Archive OCR text)
Goodness is seen with the eye of the understanding; Hooker names reason as its light and knowledge and will as the sources of human action.
Citation: "And the light of that eye, is reason. So that two principal fountains there are of human action, Knowledge and Will;" — Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Preface and Book I), Book I, ch. VII (Everyman's Library printing, Internet Archive OCR text). (id hooker-laws-of-ecclesiastical-polity-q5)
Portrait: Wenceslas Hollar - Richard Hooker (State 1), Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain.
