Editorial December 29, 1945 Issue

No Inferiority in Man

Paul Stark Seeley

One distressing evil that harasses many a mortal is the belief that he is inferior to his fellows, is less capable, less able to accomplish and succeed. So mesmerized does he often become by such insistent suggestions of evil projecting into human thought this concept of selfhood that his life may seem blighted, his usefulness restricted. He becomes imprisoned in a prison house made of the lying suggestions that his is a limited material selfhood, fettered by inhibitions of inferiority which he knows not how to overcome.

That which causes arguments of inferiority to assail and obsess us is the devilish mortal mind, the source of every limiting thought, the opposite of the good and intelligent Mind, which is God. Mortal mind claims it creates us to be mortals; makes us of material elements, and by material processes; that we derive what we are from it; that it is often woefully lacking in intelligence and ability, fails more than it succeeds, and that we as its children, express its inability and inferiority.

Those mortals who are not plagued with such a sense of personal inferiority are often confronted with the persistent suggestion that they are inferior to certain forms of evil, "bound in affliction and iron," as the Psalmist puts it (Psalms 107:10). It may be a chronic disease, a tenacious sin, a false appetite, or some phase of personal domination. Evil claims superior power, to which it says man is inferior.

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