Editorial September 25, 1902 Issue

The Beauty of Right Expression

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In the unfoldment of Truth the ideal is ever seeking for its true expression, and if its fair proportions do not appeal to us it evidences the fixity and irresponsiveness of our human sense.

The soil answers to the seedling's call, and the fields and hedgerows are thus glorified with summer's sweet fashionings, the varied beauty and charm of leaf and flower; but mortal sense is not thus plastic, it does not, and cannot lend itself to the requirements of the ideal. Only glad and spontaneous receptivity can express perfection, and anything that is less than perfect is not divine.

This is equally true of expression in word and expression in conduct. Truth could come so much nearer to us were we not indifferent, or perchance attached, to the little errors which it can no more tolerate than the large, since it knows no adjustment to human faultiness.

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