Meditations IX.10

They all bear fruit—Man and God and the Universe: each in its due season bears. It matters nought that in customary parlance such a term is strictly applicable only to the vine and such things. Reason too hath its fruit both for all and for itself, and there issue from it other things such as is Reason itself.²²

• 22.St. Paul, Galatians v. 22.

  Galatians 5:22 has “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith” (King James).