in safety." Who knows but what circumstances might drive us to?
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”Natural."—To be natural at least in his deficiencies is perhaps the highest eulogium that can be bestowed on an artificial and in all other respects theatrical and ungenuine artist. For this very reason he will boldly display his deficiencies.
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Conscience-substitute.—One man is the other's conscience: a fact which is of special importance if the other has no conscience.
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Transformation of duties.—When duty ceases to be a burden, when, after long practice, it becomes a delight and a necessity, then the rights of others to whom our duties, now our inclinations, refer, change into occasions for pleasant sensations. The other, in the force of his rights, henceforth becomes to us an object of love instead of an object of reverence and awe, We seek our own pleasure when we acknowledge and maintain the extent of his power. When the Quietists no longer felt their Christian faith as a burden, and found their only delight in God, they adopted the motto: “Do all to the glory of God"; whatever they
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