But "I see in part That all, as in some piece of art, Is toil co-operant to an end;" that all things are working together for final good.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
Mark not only was an influence on him altogether new, but had stirred up and brought alive in him a thousand influences besides, not merely of things hitherto dormant in him, but of memories never consciously, operant-words of his mother; a certain Sunday-evening with her; her last blessing on his careless head; the verse of a well-known hymn she repeated as she was dying; old scraps of things she had taught him; dying little Mark gave life to these and many other things.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald