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Under the title "Social Aims" he gives some wise counsel concerning manners and conversation. One of these precepts will serve as a specimen if we have met with it before it is none the worse for wear: "Shun the negative side. Never worry people with; your contritions, nor with dismal views of politics or society.
This old collection of the ejaculations of love and dread, of the supreme desires and contritions of men, proceeding out of the region of the grand and eternal seems ... the alphabet of the nations, and all posterior writings, either the chronicles of facts under very inferior ideas, or when it rises to sentiment, the combinations, analogies, or degradation of this.
Thus wound she herself into my affections, by an unexampled perseverance in seeming kindness; by tender confidence; by artful glosses of past misconduct; by self-rebukes and feigned contritions. "Never were stratagems so intricate, dissimulation so profound!
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too, Those smaller faults, half converts to the right. It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
Then the lady takes a brace, accepts them contritions, an' puts it up for her part that she can see my grandfather's a shore-enough gent an' a son of chivalry; an' with that the riot winds up plumb pleasant all 'round.
These things being safe and immovably settled in my mind, I sought anxiously "whence was evil?" What were the pangs of my teeming heart, what groans, O my God! yet even there were Thine ears open, and I knew it not; and when in silence I vehemently sought, those silent contritions of my soul were strong cries unto Thy mercy. Thou knewest what I suffered, and no man.
Under the title "Social Aims" he gives some wise counsel concerning manners and conversation. One of these precepts will serve as a specimen if we have met with it before it is none the worse for wear: "Shun the negative side. Never worry people with; your contritions, nor with dismal views of politics or society.
It is not a study of creeds or philosophies of religion, it is a study of personal religious experiences; of the fears, hopes, desires, contritions, joys, and aspirations of men and women of all lands and ages, as they have been dealing with the fact of religion.
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices: "Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too, Those smaller faults, half converts to the right." It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
That need makes in morals the capital virtue of self-trust. We must hold hard to this poverty, however scandalous, and by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess our axis more firmly. The life of truth is cold and so far mournful; but it is not the slave of tears, contritions and perturbations. It does not attempt another's work, nor adopt another's facts.
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