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The Positive Morality of any community undergoes development, and is thus subject to changes which affect the consciences of the few before they are accepted by the many; so that the rules at any time sustained by the strongest social sanctions may not only fall short of, but even clash with, the intuitions of those members of the community who have most moral insight.
The Jesuits succeeded in winning souls merely by encouraging the people to meditate; meditation opened up an unsuspected inner world, which fascinated the type of person accustomed to flit lightly in thought across a multitude of diverse matters; and under the spell of such fascination, their consciences could attribute to nothing less than some occult power, what was really the application of a great pedagogic principle.
The point hath been weightily discussed, whether we, that are of authority and influence, do well discharge our consciences by trusting an immortal soul, such as there is in yonder child, to the guidance of one who hath stumbled and fallen amid the pitfalls of this world.
The surmounting of morality, in a certain sense even the self-mounting of morality-let that be the name for the long-secret labour which has been reserved for the most refined, the most upright, and also the most wicked consciences of today, as the living touchstones of the soul.
It may be necessary for the education of the real philosopher that he himself should have once stood upon all those steps upon which his servants, the scientific workers of philosophy, remain standing, and MUST remain standing he himself must perhaps have been critic, and dogmatist, and historian, and besides, poet, and collector, and traveler, and riddle-reader, and moralist, and seer, and "free spirit," and almost everything, in order to traverse the whole range of human values and estimations, and that he may BE ABLE with a variety of eyes and consciences to look from a height to any distance, from a depth up to any height, from a nook into any expanse.
Have respect, therefore, to your own consciences and to public opinion.
A combination of factors has pushed the cases forward: Blacks hold more political power and have lobbied for suspects to be tried, witnesses with heavy consciences can come forward without fear of speaking the truth, and a feeling that the South must come to terms with past racism and violence.
The term is a ready salve for the consciences of con?
icted parents, who squeeze in a few moments with their children, catch-as-catch-can, yet sense deep down that they are robbing their youngsters-and themselves-of something vital.
It has sanctioned selfishness, it has indorsed monstrous pretensions, it has received with favor impious vows, as if it were able to fill up a bottomless pit, and to satiate hell! Blind law, the law of the ignorant man, a law which is not a law, the voice of discord, deceit, and blood! This it is which, continually revived, reinstated, rejuvenated, restored, re-enforced-as the palladium of society-has troubled the consciences of the people, has obscured the minds of the masters, and has induced all the catastrophes which have befallen nations.
Still, if the electoral reform, in its present shape, were rational, practical, acceptable to clean consciences and upright minds, perhaps one might be excused, though ignorant of its object, for supporting it.
All women with various expressions of nervous conscience want to ease their consciences for the sake of their own comfort-not in the least for the sake of doing right.
The great power of the church in the beginning of the eleventh century lay in the wills and consciences of men.
If that power rested with the Pope and not the King, then the latter lost control not only of the consciences of his subjects but of a considerable part of his dominions.
{276}Never did Rome seem to realize that its power was in the consciences of common men.
Most young men would have soothed their consciences and dried the running tears with a gift of money or a letter recommending the outcast to a new employer.
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