CHAPTEE VI 



HEEEDITAEY SIN IS DISPROVED BY RECOVERY 



IP there is one thing we know about sin, it is that 

 it is a waste of human resources. Its direct effect 

 is to poison, tear down, dissipate, disintegrate, de- 

 stroy the elements, powers, faculties, even the very 

 tissue of human nature. Its power in a single life- 

 time to change a human being into a worse than 

 beast is marvelous. The body becomes weak and 

 refuses its functions, becomes incapable of its 

 normal actions. The mind breaks down until it 

 is dethroned, and the gross sinner must be directed 

 and provided for by organized society. The soul 

 loses every semblance to divinity, or even to nor- 

 mal humanity. 



Now, if sin were hereditary, one generation 

 would commence at the low level at which the last 

 generation had arrived. A people whose habits 

 were gross, whose practices were lawless, whose 

 minds were vicious and impure, whose spiritual 

 life was vile and unchaste, under the law of sinful 

 development from generation to generation would 

 be dragged down so low in fifty generations that 

 it would take fifty generations to uplift them to 

 the level of those who had lived under a pure gos- 



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