Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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While there are comparatively few men who do not wish to take a clean and decent attitude in life, there are many who choose the right, and yet think it is not necessary to draw a perfectly sharp line between good and evil. They think they may toy a little with sin without harm to themselves; indeed they often believe that every well-educated man should have some knowledge of the prurient and unclean...
Another reason is that ignorance of uncleanness is the secret of freedom. There is something terrible about the grip of evil. The more a man tries to forget it, the more it grips him. Even the purest man knows something of its slavery and shame...
Another reason for maintaing this ignorance is that the whole beauty of life hangs upon it. There is a fascination about the sinner who has repented but he does not appeal to us as a little child appeals to us. The life which has been spotted with evil can never be as fair as it might have been...
...last reason for remaining ignorant of evil is that this ignorance is the only possible basis for honest whole-souled fellowship and friendship. The slightest introduction of evil into the relations of life make the best and noblest friendship impossible...
...question of exhaustion, no evil results have appeared nor are likely to appear, providing there is suitable preparation, from our four mile races. But even if it is desirable to reduce the exhaustion, three miles is, if at all, very little better than four in this respect...