Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
African SpirIf pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
African SpirOnly a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
African SpirWhat is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
African SpirOutward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.
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