Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

But let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.'[15] 'Judgment' and 'righteousness' are not goddesses, but the voice which Amos heard was not the voice of an abstraction.
[15] Amos, ch.v., vv.

21, 23, 24 (R.V.M.).
Sometimes a new moral or political entity is created rather by immediate insight than by the slow process of deliberate analysis.

Some seer of genius perceives in a flash the essential likeness of things hitherto kept apart in men's minds--the impulse which leads to anger with one's brother, and that which leads to murder, the charity of the widow's mite and of the rich man's gold, the intemperance of the debauchee and of the party leader.

But when the master dies the vision too often dies with him.