Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first reason is that ignorance is power. It is often said that the spotless man cannot help and sympathize with the man who has sinned, because of his own inexperience in sin-as if a doctor should not set a broken arm unless his own arm had been fractured. A man does not need to soil his won life to help to purify the lives of others. The great power in life belongs not to the man who is tarnished but to the man who is innocent. It is Jesus Christ, the unstained, who is the most powerful figure...
...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...
...third reason is that this ignorance holds the secret of freshness and interest in life. There is nothing new about sin. The man who knows the unclean side of life is the man who loses his vivacity and enthusiasm. It is only along the lines of the good that freshness and interest...
...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...