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I pass on to the next criticism, which a little "editing" on my part could have averted

Date of account: Published 1907
Source: Seen and Unseen
Reference: Seen and Unseen · selected passage 120
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The last suggestion appeared to me by far the most luminous

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The last suggestion appeared to me by far the most luminous. In human life it is invariably the _lower_ nature that needs to be reconciled and conciliated; whilst the higher nature, in proportion to its development, is forgiving and tolerant and wide-minded, and does not prate about its own high sense of justice requiring to be appeased. The best type of _man_ punishes a wrong-doer in order that he may learn to do better and leave off tormenting and wronging his fellow-creatures; not to appease any instinct in his own breast, for that would be egotism, no matter how we might try to disguise the fact.

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