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Defects, diversities, and disproportions in faculties and conditions in present lots, do they not suggest to our reason a future destiny? Do they not point to the assurance that life is continuous into a different state in which injustice is not? In the depths of the past is the secret of present grievous inequalities, and in the depths of the future reparation will doubtless be found. | Defects, diversities, and disproportions in faculties and conditions in present lots, do they not suggest to our reason a future destiny? Do they not point to the assurance that life is continuous into a different state in which injustice is not? In the depths of the past is the secret of present grievous inequalities, and in the depths of the future reparation will doubtless be found. | ||
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Moral freedom, we have said, disenthrals itself in proportion to the growth of the intellectual faculties. From what does it disenthral itself? What are the trammels through which it has to struggle? | Moral freedom, we have said, disenthrals itself in proportion to the growth of the intellectual faculties. From what does it disenthral itself? What are the trammels through which it has to struggle? | ||
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Man cannot disenthral himself wholly from the bonds of the lower life until he has a higher ideal than selfish covetousness, until he listens for the moral harmonies which are the true and enlarging medium for his soul. | Man cannot disenthral himself wholly from the bonds of the lower life until he has a higher ideal than selfish covetousness, until he listens for the moral harmonies which are the true and enlarging medium for his soul. | ||
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Thus the conscious personality, the human soul, a simple virtuality at the beginning, still moved by the attractions of animality, disengages itself more and more from the rule of the lower passions in proportion to the development of its faculties and enlargement of its horizons. By the side of selfish natural wants, other desires, sentiments, and feelings awaken. Perceiving that he is weak alone against the blind forces in operation about him—that Nature, in not giving him the arms, covering, and instinct of other beings, requires that he should consort with others—he falls in to live with them a life of combined effort. Then arise those social relations which determine moral life with its notions of duty, right, pity, sympathy, justice. The husk of self is expanded, and the being enters into the life of others. | Thus the conscious personality, the human soul, a simple virtuality at the beginning, still moved by the attractions of animality, disengages itself more and more from the rule of the lower passions in proportion to the development of its faculties and enlargement of its horizons. By the side of selfish natural wants, other desires, sentiments, and feelings awaken. Perceiving that he is weak alone against the blind forces in operation about him—that Nature, in not giving him the arms, covering, and instinct of other beings, requires that he should consort with others—he falls in to live with them a life of combined effort. Then arise those social relations which determine moral life with its notions of duty, right, pity, sympathy, justice. The husk of self is expanded, and the being enters into the life of others. | ||
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Violence, fraud, iniquity give rise to compassion, devotedness, and noble indignation. The excesses of evil give birth to the idea of good. Among those themselves who are swayed by brute passion, humanity reveals itself by that interior trouble which follows all violation of moral law. The destiny of man is supreme good, and towards this destiny he is urged even by the evil which he commits. | Violence, fraud, iniquity give rise to compassion, devotedness, and noble indignation. The excesses of evil give birth to the idea of good. Among those themselves who are swayed by brute passion, humanity reveals itself by that interior trouble which follows all violation of moral law. The destiny of man is supreme good, and towards this destiny he is urged even by the evil which he commits. | ||