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...Tangarines" partakes of the characteristics of a fable and of a description. It lacks the moral of a fable; or at any rate the moral, in so far as implied, is one which could hardly be recommended for universal adoption...
...problems. Of these in particular the problem as to the worth of life, and the existence of evil, is taken, not as if it were the only great problem of the group, but because, in the discussions of it, are brought together a number of important considerations of a moral and religious type...
...only solution of our problem is to be looked for, then, in what may be called an Ethical Optimism, where the existence of evil in the universe is held to bear the same relation to the goodness of the moral order, that, in the individual good man, his evil impulses bear to the moral will that conquers them. With such a moral optimism our study of Hegel has in some measure made us acquainted...
...still true that one great element of the evil in the world remains not only unexplained, but from our finite point of view inexplicable. Such evil as tends to make the world serious, and even tragic, may be justified by its very significance as a part of the stern, moral order, But the genuinely disheartening evils of the world are those blind absurdities and caprices of human fortune, which everywhere seem to make the world not spiritual but trivial, and life not a significant struggle for a great end, but a contemptible conflict with foes that have no worth...
...great truth of the old vision is that the secret of a righteous life is to stand up. We teach our children to stand instead of leaning and lolling about, not only because it looks better to stand unsupported but because the habit carries a moral lesson. The first thing a recruit is taught to do is to stand straigt, no for looks but because the act of so standing conveys the idea of discipline. And for centuries the word in our language which is the typical expression fro absolute honesty has been uprightness...