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My Bondage and My Freedom

CHAPTER XXV
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If but one be filled with it, the cause lives.

Its incarnation in any one individual man, leaves the whole world a priesthood, occupying the highest moral eminence even that of disinterested benevolence.

Whoso has ascended his height, and has the grace to stand there, has the world at his feet, and is the world's teacher, as of divine right.

He may set in judgment on the age, upon the civilization of the age, and upon the religion of the age; for he has a test, a sure and certain test, by which to try all institutions, and to measure all men.

I say, he may do this, but this is not the chief business for which he is qualified.


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