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Updated: June 2, 2025
Then he sat down and stared vacantly at the close-cropped grass on the opposite side of the path. By what handle should he lay hold of his thoughts? That woman could not retroact and touch the memory of Ida. That dear vision remained intact. He drew forth his locket, and opening it gazed passionately at the fair girlish face, now so hopelessly passed away.
Their habit of distinguishing between the successive phases of an individual life as distinct persons, made it impossible for them to take any other view of the matter. In their eyes the past was good or bad for itself, and the present good or bad for itself, and an evil past could no more shadow a virtuous present than a virtuous present could retroact to brighten or redeem an ugly past.
In all such eases, odd as it may sound, our judgment may actually be said to retroact and to enrich the past. Our judgments at any rate change the character of FUTURE reality by the acts to which they lead.
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