Protestant mystics stated plainly that, for the mystic, supreme authority lies of necessity not in the written word of Scripture but in the Word of God in the self.
William Law described non-Christian saints as "apostles of a Christ within". Protestant mystics stated plainly that, for the mystic, supreme authority lies of necessity not in the written word of Scripture but in the Word of God in the self.
This could be either the all-out necessity of supreme pre-eminence across all possible worlds used in versions of the ontological argument, or a more local, limited notion of a being that is uncaused in the actual world.
"The war was no longer regarded as a heroic necessity, but a supreme example of suffering made up of individual tragedies which could never be wiped out by either a common faith or the victorious outcome of the war," wrote the critic Antonín Liehm.
The myth of progress is probably deluded and certainly dangerous, but Gray himself admits the necessity of myth – of "supreme fictions", in his admired Wallace Stevens's celebrated formulation.
As a matter of fact, Wyclif, having defined necessary truths as those truths which cannot not be the case, (i) distinguishes between absolutely necessary truths and conditionally (or relatively – secundum quid) necessary truths, and (ii) tries to show how relative necessity is consistent with supreme contingence (Logicae continuatio, tr. 1, chap. 11, vol. 1, pp. 156 65).
But presumably a sufficient number of non-cooperators would serve to make one "a prey to others" and procure "certain ruin", and it is the necessity of avoiding some such ruin that motivates the supreme emergency story, even though it is collective rather than individual ruin that lies at its heart.
In other words, the empha sis has shifted from supreme desirability which a victory over the Jets has represented for more than a year of an ticipation to sheer necessity.
The country is asking for extraordinary -- in some cases, supreme -- sacrifices from the military, and then failing to meet its own responsibility to provide such basic necessities as pay and health care.
Indeed, as the claims for its necessity have become weaker and weaker, its backers only become more adamant that it is a matter of supreme national importance that the project goes ahead.
