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The moral anarchy of our day may be excused, in a certain degree at any rate, on the ground that the puritanical “pretend you don’t know” morality often led to disgusting hypocrisy; as a reaction against this hypocrisy there arose not only the natural human demand to become acquainted with one’s own nature, but a contention that human beings have the right to be as Nature made them; that which is natural is good. Primitive Christianity taught on the contrary that the natural human being is not good, because he is incomplete: he has thrown away a perfection which mankind was created to possess. Only the grace of God, which does not disturb, but perfects, nature, can make man good, since it makes him complete again.
—Sigrid Undset
Stages on the Road (1934)
— Nature — Commonplaces #189 — Nov/Dec 2023 —
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