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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

CHAPTER 5
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Inspired by that mongrel Moral Sense of his! A sense whose function is to distinguish between right and wrong, with liberty to choose which of them he will do.

Now what advantage can he get out of that?
He is always choosing, and in nine cases out of ten he prefers the wrong.

There shouldn't be any wrong; and without the Moral Sense there couldn't be any.

And yet he is such an unreasoning creature that he is not able to perceive that the Moral Sense degrades him to the bottom layer of animated beings and is a shameful possession.

Are you feeling better?
Let me show you something.".


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