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It would seem that this is the principle on which God acts with reference to both the material and the moral universe. He conceals facts, with the result that many a man is self-deceived, in his ignorance, as to the size of the stars, and the cause of eclipses, and the processes of nature, and the consequences of conduct, in many an important particular.
Lie Never Tolerable as Means of Concealing. False Leg or Eye. Duty of Disclosure Conditioned on Relations to Others. Deception Purposed, and Resultant Deception. Limits of Responsibility for Results of Action. Surgeon Refusing to Leave Patient. Father with Drowning Child. Mother and Wife Choosing. Others Self-Deceived concerning Us. Facial Expression. "A Blind Patch." Broken Vase.
Not that Helen's truth was often Franklin's; they were as alien as ever in their outlook, of this Althea was convinced; but though the outlook was so different, the faculty of sight was the same in both clear, unperturbed, and profoundly independent. They were neither of them dusky or self-deceived. And what was she?
Others are self-deceived with reference to us in many things, beyond our responsibility or knowledge. We may be considered weaker or stronger, wiser or more simple, younger or older, gladder or sadder, than we are; but for the self-deception on that point by the average observer we are not responsible. We may not even be aware of it. It is really no concern of ours or of our neighbor's.
They seem to be of one mind; their religious men appeal with confidence to the righteous Judge; their women are working day and night to help forward the cause. If it were a mere question of interest, or passion, or prejudice between us and them, it might be said that one side is as likely to be self-deceived as the other. But it is not.
As convincedly as synagogue-elders sought during fatal epidemics for the secret sins of the congregation, so had they two striven to uncover the secret sinfulness of self-deceived righteousness. "Bad self-analysis is the foundation of contentment," Lapidoth had summed it up one day, as they lounged on the town-wall. To which Maimon: "Then, friend, why are we so content to censure others?
Were this book written by Moses, an actual eye-witness and chief actor on the human side, we would be forced to assert that he was self-deceived, or intended to deceive, or that the events actually did happen in some strange sort of way.
That war established the freedom and nationality of Italy, and the peace so much condemned was the means of demonstrating to the world the existence of an Italian People. How far the French Emperor was self-deceived, and to what extent he believed in the practicability of the arrangements made at Villafranca and Zurich, are inscrutable mysteries.
A great character has perforce its great faults, and the courage and ambition which made so mighty a leader were naturally enough the rock upon which that leader split, blinding his eyes and distorting his point of view, leading him into compromise and error. But though self-deceived and fanatical, it is improbable that Mohammed was insincere. By the spirit of his day he must be judged.
He was as much self-deceived as was she, and he made more noise about it. "It is you who have misunderstood me," she replied, smiling brightly now, but with just a faint, pitiful touch of regret, or self-blame lingering in her voice. "Father Beret said you would. I did not believe him; but " "And you shall not believe him," said Beverley. "I have not misunderstood you. There has been nothing.
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