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The idea which is most likely to lead them astray is the idea which vitiates the Monroe Doctrine in its popular form, the idea of some essential incompatibility between Europeanism and Americanism. That idea has given a sort of religious sanctity to the national tradition of isolation; and it will survive its own utility because it flatters American democratic vanity.
As a right over a man's subsistence is a power over his moral being, so a right over a woman's subsistence enslaves her will, degrades her pride and vitiates her whole moral nature. To her brother Daniel R., in Kansas, who was somewhat skeptical on the woman question, she sent this strong letter: Even the smallest human right denied, is large.
Writing to Courayer in 1726, Archbishop Wake laments the infidelity and iniquity which abounded, but is of opinion that 'no care is wanting in our clergy to defend the Christian faith. John Wesley, while decrying the notion that the unworthiness of the minister vitiates the worth of his ministry, admits that 'in the present century the behaviour of the clergy in general is greatly altered for the better, although he thinks them deficient both in piety and knowledge.
It will further come to be seen that everything which vitiates this choice as, for instance, the economic dependence of women, great excess of women in a community, the inheritance of large fortunes is ultimately to be condemned on that final ground, if on no other.
Yet again, reconsidering the whole problem, I am not sure that the whole suggestion, taken as advice, is not at fault. I think it is making a melancholy, casuistical, ethical business out of what ought to be a natural process. I think it is vitiated by a principle which vitiates so much of the advice of moralists, the principle that one ought to aim at completeness and perfection.
There is the same sort of truthfulness in Hawthorne's allegory of "The Celestial Railway," in Froude's "On a Siding at a Railway Station," and in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." The habit of lying carried into fiction vitiates the best work, and perhaps it is easier to avoid it in pure romance than in the so-called novels of "every-day life."
Either we are reading the thoughts of men whose thoughts heap a priceless store within us, or we are reading that which though we are unaware vitiates and puts further and further beyond our grasp the truths of life; either we are watching our lives and schooling them to feed upon thoughts and deeds that will uplift them, or we are neglecting them, and allowing them to browse where they will upon the rank weeds of petty spites, petty jealousies, petty gossipings and petty deeds.
There is nothing that vitiates the life of a man more than the atmosphere of a cafe." I could not believe him. "You must surely have been married as well? One could not get as baldheaded as you are without having been much in love." He shook his head, sending down his back little hairs from the scalp: "No, I have always been virtuous."
"In regard to what point? In regard to all the points, sir. There, sir, is the copy made of that order detailing the Court. It reads, 'Detailed for the Court, whereas it should be 'Detail for the Court. My mind is not made up fully as to whether the variance vitiates the Record or not. The authorities appear to be silent upon that point. To say the least, it is d d awkward."
A good deal can be bought this way, but it will not "stay bought," for no reform of any sort can be established after any such fashion, since reform begins in and with the individual, and if it succeeds at all it will be by the cumulative process. I shall speak of this element of scale in every succeeding lecture, for it vitiates every institution we have.
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