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At parties I have thought differently, and sorrowed for the owners of arms and busts and shoulders that inexorable fashion condemns on such occasions to an exposure which, to say the least, is in many cases needless.
Nehemiah condemns it as destructive to personal and civic freedom. There is no hint of its discontinuance in the new dispensation. The Master gave a spiritual completeness to this law as he did to all enactments requiring external moral character. He classed the usurers, in his parables, among the dishonest, who took up what they had not laid down.
A court-martial was, of course, hasty and often unjust in its decisions; but still, it observed some of the forms of procedure practised in judicial tribunals. It still preserved something of the solemnity of legal justice, which desires to be enlightened before it condemns.
Her creed condemns, but her heart loves me aye, still, still! Oh, tell her how with my last breath I loved and blessed her, Arthur; tell her we shall meet again, where Jew and Gentile worship the same God! Oh that I could but have proved proved How suddenly it has grown dark! Uncle Julien, is it not time for the evening prayer?"
"To keep your pledge," a voice, half audible, seemed to say. "And be for ever restless under it, for ever galled by its slavish chains," another voice urged, instantly. "Yes," he said, "that is the consequence which makes me hesitate. Fool fool not to have taken a pledge for a limited period! I was deceived tricked into an act that my sober reason condemns! And should I now be held by that act?
Here it is that Nature teaches and condemns, and still spurs us up to further effort and new failure. To please is to serve; and so far from its being difficult to instruct while you amuse, it is difficult to do the one thoroughly without the other. We shall never learn the affinities of beauty, for they lie too deep in nature and too far back in the mysterious history of man.
But this grieves me not so much to lose a sickly girl as that I find a superior power condemns me to declare to you the causes of your error.
Your Government has robbed your soldiers of all honour in the eyes of the world by making them the instruments of a military policy which the rest of the world unanimously condemns as brutal and barbarous.
Surely such a man is not guilty of a very heinous crime certainly he is not in the opinion of the peasantry and yet if he be prosecuted and convicted he inevitably falls into the jaws of an article of the Code which condemns to transportation for a long term of years. In such cases what is the jury to do?
A mere accident of circumstance often condemns to criminal careers youths capable of the highest service to society, and for a mere brief season of temperamental outbreak or obstreperousness exposes them to all the infamy to which ignorant and cruel public opinion condemns all those who have once been detected on the wrong side of the invisible and arbitrary line of rectitude.
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