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I will not indicate it, lest I should be supposed to attribute to it either the peculiar faults or virtues of my new acquaintance. "No," I answered, speaking with the calmness of self-compulsion, for I confess I felt repelled: "I am not one of you, except in as far as we all belong to the church of Christ."
No one is reformed in states of no rationality or no freedom. v. Self-compulsion is not contrary to rationality and freedom. vi. The external man is to be reformed through the internal, and not the other way about.
Though greatly dissatisfied with my self-compulsion, I strove to reconcile myself to its idea.
It was only by the strongest effort at self-compulsion that she could keep herself to duty among the poor and suffering, and well for her it was that she did not fail here; it was all that held her to safe mooring. One day, as she was on her way home from some visit of mercy, a lady who was passing in a carriage called to her from the window, at the same time ordering her driver to stop.
Her father had not arrived yet with Johanna, but she questioned every stir of the air for the sound of their coming. A yearning which commonly lay very still in her bosom and ought in these two long years to have got reconciled to its lovely prison, was up once more in silent mutiny. With slow self-compulsion she turned toward the house.
Though greatly dissatisfied with my self-compulsion, I strove to reconcile myself to its idea.
He listened to Olive only by self-compulsion. It was minutes before he had the ability and the chance to say to Ruth: "Forgive me in the name of the Blue Bowl. Mr. Dunleavy was rather rude to me, and I've been just as rude and to you! And without his excuse. For he naturally would want to protect you from a wild aviator coming from Lord knows where." "You are forgiven. And Phil was rude.
To be compelled by love and by the fear of failing in it is self-compulsion, and self-compulsion, it will be seen in what follows, is not contrary to freedom and rationality. It is plain then what forced worship and unforced worship are like.
In his reply, Wotan briefly sums Brünnhilde's offence: She defied the Storm-compeller, where he was practising the utmost self-compulsion; what the Leader of Battle yearned to do, but refrained from, his own antagonist, all too confident, the insolent maid dared to bring about for herself. At the indication of Brünnhilde's fate, indignation possesses the Wala.
All of these who serve willingly in order to be free compel themselves, and in doing so act from freedom according to reason but from an inner freedom, by which outward freedom is regarded as servant. We add this to confirm the fact that self-compulsion is not contrary to rationality and liberty.
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