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The foulest act with which man's hands are soiled,
That telleth, loud, humanity's disgrace.
Leaves on the earth its evil; undefiled
The Fact uplifts to heaven its holy face,
And blotteth not the pages of that book
Whereon the brooding eye of God doth look.
THE error of our feeling is that phenomena are the reality to us; the error of our practice is that we treat them as reality. We do not see the worth of temporal events. Overlooking their relation to the fact of man's redemption, we overlook all that is real and absolute in them, all that constitutes their value and necessity. If in all things we regard the fact, letting our thoughts go on, beyond our own impressions, to that which truly is, then we can treat all things aright. For the world's redemption is a fact which, by its nature, surpasses and subordinates in our regard all others. In its presence, illusions lose their power; new forces influence us; the world is not to us what it was before, but infinitely more. Our whole being is enlarged. A new and overpowering thought absorbs the private regard. It cannot grieve us any more to suffer, or to forego our own desires. A joy so great springs out of the suffering, in our knowledge of that for which it is, that suffering itself is changed. Knowledge of man's redemption, which shows all suffering to be suffering for the world, makes a new thing of human life; inverts it; more than doubles it; extracts from that part of it (how large a part!) which we have deemed mere loss and evil, a value infinitely exceeding all the rest; makes suffering more to be desired than that to which we have heretofore abused the name of joy.
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