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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Have you no faith in my wisdom, in my tenderness, in my solicitude for your future?" "Oh, father!" murmured the girl. "Don't you suppose that I know something of men: their vices, their follies, their falsities?" She detached herself, and turned upon him. "He is not vicious he is not false!" Her father kept looking at her with his sharp, pure eye. "You make nothing of my judgement, then?"
When the understanding is blind, however, the will also is indifferent and acts in freedom according to one's reason only to do the evil confirmed in the understanding, and the confirmation is falsity. Besides ignorance, a religion which teaches a blind faith also blinds the understanding; so does a false doctrine. For just as truths open the understanding, falsities close it.
I have never read a writer who in spirit was more essentially pagan than Rousseau, or who wrote maxims more entirely antagonistic to Christianity. Aside from these great falsities, the perfection of natural impulse, the inferiority of woman, and the worthlessness of Christianity, as inculcated in this book, "Émile" must certainly be ranked among the great classics of educational literature.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
And the natural mind that is in evils and in falsities therefrom is in a similar form; consequently, a natural man who is of this character comes, after death, into a society of hell similar to himself, and then, in each and every particular, he acts in unison with it; for he thus enters into his own form, that is, into the states of his own mind.
I could heartily wish a law was enacted, that every traveller, before he were permitted to publish his voyages, should be obliged to make oath before the Lord High Chancellor, that all he intended to print was absolutely true to the best of his knowledge; for then the world would no longer be deceived, as it usually is, while some writers, to make their works pass the better upon the public, impose the grossest falsities on the unwary reader.
In this and in no other way is the spiritual mind opened, and by means of such opening the natural mind is brought back into correspondent form. All evils and their falsities, both engendered and acquired, have their seat in the natural mind.
Is this the way you maintain your credit as business men? Oh, let us purge these statements of outgrown crudities, cruelties, falsities, blasphemies, infamies! Let us dare to believe that the light of God to-day is holier than the mistakes about Him made by those who walked in darkness. Now let me suggest to you.
She told me yesterday that if ever she did consent to marry it would have to be her father's curate; she would neither leave the parish nor her father, she said. A lot of women would have been embarrassed in saying that, and I can see the expression of your face as you read it. Spare your gibes. Jessica is miles above the ordinary tricks and wiles and falsities of women.
Do not, I entreat you, suffer yourselves to be persuaded by those purblind philosophers who assert that the divine virtue of Christianity is a virtue which is wearing out with the lapse of time. It is the abuse and corruption of Christianity that is wearing out as all falsities and all impostures must and do wear out.
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