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tensions, and to tell him, as one would tell a mere 

 common, unconsecrated, layman : that it is not neces- 

 sary for any man to occupy himself with problems of 

 this kind unless he so choose ; life is filled full 

 enough by the performance of its ordinary and 

 obvious duties. But that, if a man elect to become 

 a judge of these grave questions ; still more, if he 

 assume the responsibility of attaching praise or blame 

 to his fellow-men for the conclusions at which they 

 arrive touching them, he will commit a sin more 

 grievous than most breaches of the Decalogue, unless 

 he avoid a lazy reliance upon the information that is 

 gathered by prejudice and filtered through passion, 

 unless he go back to the prime sources of knowledge 

 the facts of nature, and the thoughts of those wise 

 men who for generations past have been her best 

 interpreters. 



