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This alteration, which perverts the author's meaning, appears in a London edition, 1752, and has been copied into many modern editions, even into those by Mason and Burder. The author having in the above lines described his unconverted state, goes on to delineate his convictions in these words: 'What is here in view, Of mine own knowledge, I dare say is true.
On this point ex-President Numa Droz has said: "The agitation which takes place while collecting the necessary signatures, nearly always attended with strong feeling, diverts the mind from the object of the law, perverts in advance public opinion, and, not permitting later the calm discussion of the measure proposed, establishes an almost irresistible current toward rejection."
The sexual life of such persons begins like that of perverts, a considerable part of their childhood is filled up with perverse sexual activity which occasionally extends far beyond the period of maturity, but owing to inner reasons a repressive change then results usually before puberty, but now and then even much later and from this point on without any extinction of the old feelings there appears a neurosis instead of a perversion.
But it was the moral suffering against which all his wisdom and courage were invoked to struggle, the resolute maintenance of healthful mental activity, without an object or motive underived from will, the repression of hopeless, vague, self-tormenting reverie, which perverts intellect and drains moral energy, the habitual exercise of memory, reflection, and fancy, to preserve their functions unimpaired.
They hold that the instructions given with regard to these sacred objects comprised the whole code of administrative ethics. The mirror neither hides nor perverts; it reflects evil qualities as faithfully as good; it is the emblem of honesty and purity.
Working upon accidentals secures weak results, perverts and interferes with free function. Working upon elementals brings freedom, power. As all training is a reaching upward towards an ideal so an exercise is a single step and the first exercise should be the most primary action. The primary condition of all growth is a certain joyous awakening, an expansive enjoyment of life.
It does not involve the slightest idea of present emancipation; it contents itself with checking the progress of slavery; and to check its progress is, doubtless, to diminish the perils of its future abolition. It was important to present this observation, for nothing perverts our judgment of the American crisis more than the inexact definitions which are given of abolitionism.
People who say innocently things which shock you, who put the listeners at a dinner-table upon tenter-hooks, are either wanting in taste or their minds are confused with shyness. A person thus does great injustice to his own moral qualities when he permits himself to be misrepresented by that disease of which we speak. Shyness perverts the speech more than vice even.
My thought is too turgid to receive the impress of them. Concentration is impossible to me. Feverish agitation perverts my imagination. My ideas are fugitive. I endure a chronic delirium. This by day," he extended one hand with a despairing gesture, "but by night " "Oh, I implore you," Helen interrupted, "spare me the description of your nights! The subject is a hardly modest one.
Perhaps we are all prigs at some season in our lives, if we happen to have any inherent power of doing great things. There are lovable prigs, who grow into admirable men and women; but, alas! for the prig whose self-love coils round him like a snake, until it crushes out the ingenuous fervor of youth, and perverts the noblest aspirations of manhood!
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