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In his self-direction thitherward he was as candid, one-pointed, and ruthless as the Arab might be. He had no deliberate thought of harm to the woman before him as little as the Arab would have of hurting the well whose cool wave seemed to like the lip touch. Perhaps he as little stopped to reason as would have done the Arab. Perhaps he had no thought of deeply injuring a friend.
Mollie Ainslie had readily and naturally fallen into the habit of controlling and directing almost everything about her, simply because she had been accustomed to self-control and self-direction, and was by nature quick to decide and resolute to act.
Despite political democracy, there is still an extraordinary degree of difference in the power of self-direction belonging to a capitalist and to a man who has to earn his living. Economic affairs touch men's lives, at most times, much more intimately than political questions.
Yet charming." "Oh," thought Randolph, "one of the cool boys, and one of the self- sufficing. Probably a bit of an ascetic at bottom, with good capacity for self-control and self-direction. Not at all an uninteresting type," he summed it up. "An ebullient Puritan?" he asked aloud. "That's it," she declared, " according to my sense of it." "Yet hardly a New Englander, I suppose?"
Town and church were thus the basis of settlement; but whatever measure of self-direction either might enjoy, neither was regarded as independent. All legal authority was vested in the company and exercised by the officers and freemen assembled in general court. Yet of the two thousand settlers who came over in 1630, less than a score were members of the company.
The vested interests involved were so many, and the changes so momentous and difficult, that only the most imperative needs could receive attention. But this does not mean that the interest in a larger life for women was not active or that women were making no advance in self-direction.
The composition of spirit we may never understand, but this is the action of spirit and this is intelligible." God is Personal. Personality has two characteristics; self-consciousness and self-direction. When it is said that God is personal, the meaning is that He knows Himself as God and directs His own actions. Personality does not limit God. He is the one perfect personality.
As a good pedagogue I must discuss operations separately which in reality get all their meaning through being found together. Against the necessary distortions of such a method the reader must be on his guard. In the total process of self-direction there are evidently two main divisions, a mental purpose must be formed, and then this purpose must be sent forth into the outer world.
The true sources of Jefferson's pacifism must be sought in his rationalistic philosophy, which accorded the widest scope to the principle of self-direction and self determination, whether on the part of the individual or of groups of individuals.
So again afterwards, as a rousing self-direction, one sees notified in manuscript, on p. 107, the grim stage direction, "Murder Coming."
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