[Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie]@TWC D-Link bookUnder the Trees and Elsewhere CHAPTER XXII 27/33
In other words, I am never in a position to judge another." The Poet evidently assented to this statement, and I could not gainsay it; is there not the very highest authority for it? The time will come when there will be a universal surrender of that authority which we have been usurping all these centuries.
We shall not cease to recognise the weakness and folly of men, but we shall cease to decide the exact measure of personal responsibility.
That is a function for which we were never qualified; it is a task which belongs to infinite wisdom.
The Imagination helps us to understand others because it reveals the vast compass of the influences that converge on every human soul like the countless rivulets that give the river its volume and impetus.
To look at men and women through the vision of the Imagination is to see a very different race than that which meets our common sight.
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