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Other sinners ; quite as surely as those profound and 

 indeed awfully tragic examples of sin in whom as yet, 

 looking at their temporal life merely, no one can dis- 

 cover any signs of their higher spiritual self. The 

 world, then, with your renouncing and penitential his- 

 tories in it, cannot be so altogether lost and worthless. 

 As you have all supplemented the choices of sin 

 with your purifying "judgments of regret," do not, 

 I beg you, stop there, but add to them the judgment 

 of consolation. See to it that yoii do not forget, as 

 Professor James at times seems to have forgotten, 

 how the judgment of regret, which arises out of the 

 spiritual freedom of the soul, is in due course of that 

 freedom attended or followed by the judgment of 

 remorse, by the judgment of repentance, by the judg- 

 ment of reform. These are all in the fountain of 

 the spirit, and flow from the great deeps of the free- 

 dom whose shallower expanses make possible the 

 sin. In their sum, they make up for the sinful 

 world a judgment of atonement. The infinite of 

 the soul is mightier than the finite in it. The free- 

 infinite of the intelligence will go on in the con- 

 flict of transforming the finitude of the natural life ; 

 will go on to victory ever more and more. It may 

 be, as was said before, by paths never so dark and 

 devious, or now and again even retrograde ; it may 

 be by descent with the natural into the nether pit 

 of sin and its self-operating punishment ; but onward 



