Word: flings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vivid sense of the consequences of acts. Duty works order and beauty and seems allied to the supreme Reason. Duty can be rejected. An analysis of the act of rejection shows that while sometimes we are overpowered by passions, there are times when we hesitate and then fling our consent into the more foolish of two acts. For this evil choice we are responsible. The work of evil choice is destruction. ugliness and pain. In good choice the Supreme Reason seems to work in us. With evil choice, which is irrational, the Supreme Reason can have only warfare...