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Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat … we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
There is a qualitative aspect of sincerity that has to do with richness of emotion. Clinical work strongly suggests that this aspect of the adult character is bound up with the richness of emotion characterizing the internal objects. It can be distinguished from other qualities such as their strength or goodness. It is different from their strength or integration. It seems perhaps most coextensive with their beauty, which in turn seems related to capacity for compassion.
Shakespeare's search for “the noblest Roman of them all”—idealized in Brutus, undermined in Hamlet, begun again in Lear, incomplete in Othello, eventually finds fulfilment in Antony, the archetypal pattern of the heroic or great-souled magnanimous man.2