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Sister Carrie

CHAPTER XXVII
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Those who have never heard that solemn voice of the ghostly clock which ticks with awful distinctness, "thou shalt," "thou shalt not," "thou shalt," "thou shalt not," are in no position to judge.

Not alone in sensitive, highly organized natures is such a mental conflict possible.

The dullest specimen of humanity, when drawn by desire toward evil, is recalled by a sense of right, which is proportionate in power and strength to his evil tendency.

We must remember that it may not be a knowledge of right, for no knowledge of right is predicated of the animal's instinctive recoil at evil.

Men are still led by instinct before they are regulated by knowledge.


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