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that our present sorrows and trials and the
searching of our hearts may force on us a spiritual
distinction of the true Values of life, and that the
stubborn necessities of thrift may compel us to
see the sin of self-indulgence and the graces of
simplicity. Remember how it is because we have
set our Rights so much above our Duties that
we are now harrowed by this awful excess of
Duty ; and that it is at the feet of the idol of
our old self-seeking that our dearest are devotedly
sacrificing their young lives.
I must come to an end. And you may be
questioning whether this account of man’s mind,
as something well-disposed and striving after
good, is not irreconcilable with the phenomena
of the war. Does it not look as if that were rather
true which one great school of thinkers has asserted,
 that man is by nature bad, and is only
preserved from an anarchy of evil by strong repression,
 and that it is the duty of those who have
attained to the knowledge of good to devote all
their wits to keeping the world in order by force,
or whatever ingenuity of government they can
contrive ? Well, if you believe that you may