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This essential wrongness of Unionism, so amply illustrated in every year of its working, continues. But at least, our bluff Englishman urges, the dead past can be suffered to bury those crimes and blunders of Unionism which you have enumerated. Let us start with a clean slate. Now, as will have been gathered from a previous chapter, we recognise in this invitation an accent of soundness.
And oh, you who frightened me so about my wrongness and told me how hard it was to be right do you know how easy it is for me to say those words? And do you know how happy I am because I love you and you are mine?
There is nothing, I suppose, more acutely painful than the sense of being compelled to accept demonstrations of affection to which one cannot in the same way respond. I believe that this shrinking from expressions which seem unnatural, is rightly intensified a hundredfold when the sense of wrongness or "unnaturalness" is due not to the individual but to the relationship itself.
He has begun making a furrow a little out of the line, and he ploughs on in it to try and give some consistency and meaning to it. He wants almost to persuade himself that it was not wrong, and entirely to hide the wrongness from others. This is a tribute to the majesty of truth; also to the world's opinion about truth.
It would have struck a jarring note at the first night of 'Hernani. I was trying to account for its wrongness when Soames suddenly and strangely broke silence. 'A hundred years hence! he murmured, as in a trance. 'We shall not be here! I briskly but fatuously added. 'We shall not be here. No, he droned, 'but the Museum will still be just where it is. And the reading-room, just where it is.
So, too, if we discuss the rightness or wrongness of such an institution as polygamy we find ourselves forced to do so mainly in social terms.
There's a convention against going to church in any but your best clothes. It's easy to conceive wrongness in the application of it. It's easy to conceive a person wanting to go to church and likely to benefit by going to church, but staying away because of feeling too shabby.
The real wrongness of what you do, depends upon the level of rightness you start from, I mean." "Insatiable casuist!" Carteret tenderly laughed at her. And with that, by common though unspoken consent, they walked onward again. Even while so doing, however, both were sensible that this resumption of their homeward journey marked a period in, rather than the conclusion of, their conversation.
He meant it kindly, but inasmuch as his answers were invariably quite wrong with a distinctive and inimitable wrongness peculiar to himself the result to his followers was eminently unsatisfactory; and with the shallowness of youth that, ignoring motives, judges solely from results, they would wait for him outside and punch him.
However absurd the statement may appear to one who has not yet discovered the fact for himself, the cause of every man's discomfort is evil, moral evil first of all, evil in himself, his own sin, his own wrongness, his own unrightness; and then, evil in those he loves: with this latter I have not now to deal; the only way to get rid of it, is for the man to get rid of his own sin.
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