 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...THOMAS: Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain: Temptation shall not come in this kind again. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. The natural vigour in the venial sin Is the way in which our lives begin. Thirty years ago,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1935 - 100 pages
...THOMAS Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain: Temptation shall not come in this kind again. The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. The natural vigour in the venial sin Is the way in which our lives begin. Thirty years ago,... | |
 | Paul Roubiczek - Philosophy - 1966 - 212 pages
...not only do what is right, but we must also do it for the right motives; in the words of TS Eliot: The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.1 The motive, however, can only be recognized by ourselves; to others we can always pretend... | |
 | Wayne G. Boulton, Thomas D. Kennedy, Allen Verhey - Religion - 1994 - 576 pages
...the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As TS Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason." 1 wish you had commended the Negro sit-inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime... | |
 | John D. Barbour - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 264 pages
...(189). Examining his motives scrupulously, he ponders TS Eliot's lines from Murder in the Cathedral: "The last temptation is the greatest treason / To do the right deed for the wrong reason." Finally he decides that "it was a worse treason to postpone the right deed for fear that one... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...the king's murderous knights, Eliot's Thomas Becket finds that he fears this threat more than death: The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.14 At the end of The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene reverses the situation: not a protagonist... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan - Religion - 1996 - 324 pages
...evils, hypocrisy. As Eliot put it, in a couplet worthy of Alexander Pope in sentiment as well as form: 'The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason' (Murder in the Cathedral, pt. 1). We must be clear that Jesus did not share this modern idea... | |
 | Frans Jozef van Beeck - Catholic Church - 1997 - 450 pages
...in being good. They must resist what TS Eliot's Thomas a Becket recognizes as "the last temptation": "The last temptation is the greatest treason: / To do the right deed for the wrong reason."' Accordingly, those who live off the mystical vein in Christianity will find themselves aspiring... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 1997 - 613 pages
...couplet from Murder in the Cathedral, rhyme is employed to underscore the memorability of the lines: The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. By contrast, here are extracts from two plays first performed in the 1950s in which the definition... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As TS Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason." I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime... | |
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. 
