A whole world of literature has been created to justify this kind of life as the only normal one. Culture and education refine these things slightly but leave them basically untouched. The atmosphere is charged with it we breathe it with every breath and drink it with our mother's milk. Of this kind of moral stuff civilized society is composed. Instead of poverty of spirit we find the rankest kind of pride instead of mourners we find pleasure seekers instead of meekness, arrogance instead of hunger after righteousness we hear men saying, "I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing" instead of mercy we find cruelty instead of purity of heart, corrupt imaginings instead of peacemakers we find men quarrelsome and resentful instead of rejoicing in mistreatment we find them fighting back with every weapon at their command. In the world of men we find nothing approaching the virtues of which Jesus spoke in the opening words of the famous Sermon on the Mount. 5:5Ī fairly accurate description of the human race might be furnished one unacquainted with it by taking the Beatitudes, turning them wrong side out and saying, "Here is your human race." For the exact opposite of the virtues in the Beatitudes are the very qualities which distinguish human life and conduct. Chapter 9: Meekness and Rest.2:58:53 Chapter Nine Meekness and Restīlessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
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