Article November 7, 1964 Issue

Signs of the Times

Sydney J. Harris

Wisconsin State Journal,

Sydney J. Harris, Columnist in "Evil Is Self-Destructive" Wisconsin State Journal, Madison [By permission of Publishers Newspaper Syndicate, Chicago]

It is a comforting thought on a grim day that what keeps the world from falling wholly into crime and corruption is the psychological fact that evil is a separatist thing, while goodness is a unifying thing.

We would be utterly under the rule of evil, were it otherwise; for evil is industrious, while virtue is too often apathetic; evil is cunning, while virtue is credulous; evil is attractive and exciting, while virtue makes no similar appeal to the senses.

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