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In our reveries we are frequently engaged in self-justification, for we cannot bear to think ourselves wrong, and yet have constant illustrations of our weaknesses and mistakes. So we spend much time finding fault with circumstances and the conduct of others, and shifting on to them with great ingenuity the on us of our own failures and disappointments.
Remember how I warned you, last December. I told you then that the secret of a woman's meal-ticket was never hidden very long." During this speech Mrs. Condor's voice had dropped from its original tone of petty rancor to one of petulant self-justification. Stillman knew at once that her ill-temper had caught her off-guard and she was already trying to crawl slowly back into his favor.
Pater himself has expounded his theory and practice of prose, doubtless with a side-thought of self-justification, in various places up and down his writings, notably in his pregnant essay on "Style," and perhaps even more persuasively in the chapter called "Euphuism" in Marius.
While in Asiatic despotisms the individual had no inner self and no self-justification, in the modern world man demands to be honored for the sake of his subjective individuality. The union of duty and right has the twofold aspect that what the State demands as duty should directly be the right of the individual, since the State is nothing but the organization of the concept of freedom.
Yet perhaps the human mind cannot cease self-justification at any point short of annihilation, and Philip still had in his secret thought a deep feeling that the church should more absolutely settle the question of the celibacy of its clergy, so that there might be no more doubts. He honored the attitude of Candish, and he resolved to imitate it.
"Or hanging him," she suggested sarcastically. He paused a moment. "I hope he won't come to that." "But you'll do all you can to catch him, knowing that it's like to come to that. What's the good of hoping?" He had only said it to soothe her. He had another self-justification. "I can only do what I have to do: it is not me that will decide whether Walker dies or not.
"No, I'm the one that you're killing," she returned, bowing her head that was glorified in the sunshine pouring round her, as if with a crown of celestial happiness. He went on in a deliberate, grave tone, feeling logical and dizzy, replete with self-justification, magnanimity, and horror: "I managed to arrive in this country secretly.
Cool defiance, free self-justification, might have carried him through. Instead of which faugh! All this was the phantom-show of a few seconds' thought. He roused himself from a miserable reaction of mind and body to attend to Marcella's question. "Why did I do it?" he repeated; "why " He broke off, pressing both his hands upon his brow. Then he suddenly sat up and pulled himself together.
I have paid for it. You will find some way perhaps. You needn't mind my name, I have none to lose. Now I think you had better go." A sense of defeat of being defrauded of his self-justification, and of something else beyond power of explanation to himself, beset Soames like the breath of a cold fog.
"Jake, I believe Robert Davis is a real Christian," said Kate, as a sort of confession on her part. "Why, I do not know of a member of our church that would do the manly thing that he has done, coming up without any self-justification and asking forgiveness for his wrong. I'm more convinced than I ever was before that Robert's doctrine is right, after all.
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