Her moral nerves shrank from it, just as nerves of the body shrink from suffering; and she recoiled from the suggestion of such a thing with the same involuntary quickness with which we put up the hand to ward off a falling blow, or drop the eyelid to protect an endangered eye.

Physicians tell us that there are in men and women such enormous differences in this matter of sensitiveness to physical pain that one person may die of a pain which would be comparatively slight to another; and this is a fact which has to be taken very carefully into account, in all dealing with disease in people of the greatest capacity for suffering.

May there not be equally great differences in souls, in the matter of sensitiveness to moral hurt ?--differences for which the soul is not responsible, any more than the body is responsible for its skin's having been made thin or thick.
Will-power has nothing whatever to do with determining the latter conditions.

Let us be careful how far we take it to task for failing to control the others.

Perhaps we shall learn, in some other stage of existence, that there is in this world a great deal of moral color blindness, congenital, incurable; and that God has much more pity than we suppose for poor things who have stumbled a good many times while they were groping in darkness.
People who see clearly themselves are almost always intolerant of those who do not.