31/34 Then honor, integrity, kindness, generosity alone seem permanent and worth one's while. All habits that fettered the faculties like iron cuffs are now felt to be but ice fetters, quickly melting. Then the nobler self, using no whip of cords, looks upon meanness and selfishness, and by a look drives them from the heart and life. Then from its judgment-seat the soul reviews its past career, searches out secret sins and scorns them. |