Word: unclean
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...right, and yet think it is not necessary to draw a perfectly sharp line between good and evil. They think they may toy a little with sin without harm to themselves; indeed they often believe that every well-educated man should have some knowledge of the prurient and unclean...
Phillips Brooks said that every man's stock of knowledge should be such that he would not be ashamed to expose it to the full view of all men. And when one stops to consider it, there are sufficient reasons why one's attitude towards what is unclean should be the attitude of whole-souled, strong-willed ignorance...
...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...