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Meanings and Moral Values

as it is written, or to morals. The real morals of a man can not be changed by a sermon. The folk of this world are less careful of the garb of their souls than of the clothes of their bodies. In my enthusiastic youth I had faith in protest against absurdity and evil. I believed that man, above all else, was a rational being. At maturity my faith falters as I perceive that man is not so much a rational as he is an emotional being.

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