1911, ISBN: 1231131535

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781231131534], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...When an impulse seizes him, there is nothing within him to contend against it. That is, he is not a moral creature. I have somewhere read of a man who believed that God had forgotten to give him a soul. It would seem almost as though God had forgotten to give Tommy a moral sense, though there is something within him that thinks about the moral sense. Schiller maintained that the Fall of Man was the happiest event in the history of the race, for without it morality would have been impossible. Goethe, on the other hand, thought that we had paid too high a price for morality. And while it is certain that it is possible to be below morality, it is probable that it is possible to be above it. Under "the ultimate angel's law, law, life, joy, impulse are one thing." Even here there are some in whose natures struggle is almost absent. There may be a few who have practically no impulses that it is necessary to fight, whose wills not only in the main purpose, but in each detail, are naturally one with the Divine will. They are God's children from the very beginning; they do not have to struggle to become so. There are others, who have the lower impulses to some extent, but in whom the moral imperative is so strong, that no sooner is a thing clearly recognized as wrong, than there is no longer any desire to do it. With such persons the effort is not so much to do what is right as to find out what is right. Lastly, there are the children and the Tommies, who act at once upon their impulses, whether lower or higher, because for the time being there is absolutely nothing with which these impulses can come into collision. Such characters are not without their charm. There is the savage within us that awakes at intervals to cry "Ship me somewhere east of Sue..., 9, History, 4762, Africa, 4808, Americas, 4873, Ancient, 4884, Asia, 4921, Australia & Oceania, 4935, Europe, 4984, Gay & Lesbian, 4987, Historical Study, 4995, Middle East, 5011, Military, 14450, Military Science, 5032, Russia, 4853, United States, 5035, World, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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