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But I fear that if the love of power is so wide-spread, the spirit of power is almost impossible to find. From wrong understanding and misuse of it, those who keep even a fraction of authority almost everywhere succeed in compromising it. Power exercises a great influence over him who holds it. A head must be very well balanced not to be disturbed by it.
Through the false, the infernal idea of having, of possessing them, we make them our tyrants, make the relation between them and us an evil thing. The world was a blessed place to Jesus, because everything in it was his father's. What pain must it not have been to him, to see his brothers so vilely misuse the Father's house by grasping, each for himself, at the family things!
He looks at the facts with such a calm, level gaze that proportions are restored to us as we follow his look. Many of my letters show that adult women, wives and mothers, still grope for the truth that lies plain to the eyes of any simple child the truth that there is no such thing as clean and unclean, only use and misuse.
In the matter of Religion the history of the Christian priesthood through the centuries shows sufficiently to what misuse such power can be put; and in the matter of Science it is a warning to us of the dangers attending the formation of a scientific priesthood, such as we see growing up around us to-day.
Happiness Desired Fretful People Motes in the Eye We were Made for Happiness Sorrow has Useful Lessons Happiness a Duty Despondency is Irreligious Pleasure not always Happiness The Misuse of the World Contentment necessary to Happiness Happiness must be sought aright Truly seeking we shall Find Our Success not always Essential Happiness often Found Unexpectedly Happiness overcomes Circumstances A Tendency to Murmuring God Rules over All Health necessary to Happiness Disease is Sinful God Loves a Happy Soul Happiness Possible to All.
The conservative physician will feel grave doubt whether the hasty recommendation of complete prohibition is such a safe way, whether it does not contain many conditions of evil, and whether the fight against the misuse of alcohol will not be more successful if a true education for temperance is accepted as the next goal.
Nowadays, on the contrary, society is so constituted that there is absolutely no way in which an official, however ill-disposed, could possibly make any profit for himself or any one else by a misuse of his power. Let him be as bad an official as you please, he cannot be a corrupt one. There is no motive to be. The social system no longer offers a premium on dishonesty.
O wretched man! why this distrust? Hast thou created even thine own palate and digestion? Hast thou invented any of those fond delights that so enslave thee now? Hast thou thyself devised the means wherewith to satisfy the longing of thy creature for the sweets of life? They were provided thee; all that thou hast created is misuse!
"The misuse of a word, it may be argued, could not prove a serious obstacle to the growth of knowledge, and might be even interesting to the student of etymology.
Some one once described the difference between good breeding and bad breeding as that between a man who works as a matter of course to conquer his limitations and a man to whom his limitations are inevitable. There is spiritual good breeding and natural good breeding. The first comes from the achievement of personal character the second is born with us to use or misuse as we prefer.
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