Now, that’s what we know about man today. It’s a very simple thing. We know that a man can change toward good, but he doesn’t change in the direction of evil. And we know that an evil intention does not change man, but fixes him. But that a good intention does.
We’ve seen all this scattered back through religions. We’ve had messiahs and so on come up time and time again and say something like this: “Love thy neighbor,” “Turn the other cheek,” the Buddhist idea of “Do unto your brother like you’d have him do unto you.” But they couldn’t have been a very clear expression of the situation because man, evidently, didn’t get this terribly simple lesson involved therein. Too many times the intention of such organizations as followed these messiahs was to hold man in check for the benefit of the church or the society or for some group—to hold him in line and keep him from spilling over and doing evil and wicked things to his fellow man.
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