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So we draw practical inferences as to the conduct of life. This thought of imperfection does not diminish the criminality of individual acts. It does not weaken aspiration and effort towards higher life. It does alleviate our doubts and fears when we find evil in ourselves. II. The possible evil lurking in our best qualities.
It is evident then from all this, that Self-Control is a good state and the Imperfection of it a bad one.
If the object of civil and political institutions had been to produce the greatest ill to the greatest number, that object had been as nearly attained at last in Spain as human imperfection permits; the efforts of government and of custom coming powerfully to the aid of the historical evils already indicated.
I declare solemnly that I would give my life willingly to save the sufferings of these people; and if I would do this, how much more does He care for them than such imperfection as I am! You would have felt sick had you seen them. Poor creatures! thirty-six hours without food!" The more experience Colonel Gordon had of his Bashi-Bazouk soldiers, the more he seems to have disliked them:
Here is the case of a young woman who was about to lose her position because of her imperfection in speech yet when she returned home after being cured at the Institute, she wrote: "I was very much surprised when I went down to the office yesterday to find that I was going to get my place back again.
But the essence of spiritual-mindedness consists in this, that it is assumed that with earth, and all things earthly, evil or imperfection are closely mixed; so that it is not possible to set our affections keenly upon, or to abandon ourselves to the enjoyment of, any earthly thing without the danger of those affections and that enjoyment becoming evil.
Here we see the first difficulty in reaching a definite conclusion. One cannot be quite sure that a deviation is not due to some imperfection in mathematical method until he and his fellows have exhausted the subject so thoroughly as to show that no error is possible. This is hard indeed to do.
Out rolled furs, many and many of them, black, and yellow, and striped the pelts of the grizzly, of the leopard, the chetah, the royal Bengal himself. "Hurray!" shouted the man, catching up first one, then another, and still a third. "Almost intact. A little imperfection here and there doesn't matter. Now we've got clothes and beds. "What's that?
"I can feel it, and have thought it would be something like that; without this provision of nature man would not be able to fecundate his mate. And how could the foolish theologian maintain that this was an imperfection?"
That which is not beautiful cannot possibly be true, for real nature, which is the expression of Infinite Mind, is always perfect, and no perfect thing can be ugly, discordant, or inharmonious. The imperfection we see is the result of our own imperfect understanding of the real universe.
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