EVIL PURSUITS
Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature. In so far as he roves from these ends, he bereaves himself of power, or auxiliaries; his being shrinks out of all remote channels, he becomes less and less, a mote, a point, until absolute badness is absolute death. From “The 1938 Harvard Divinity School Address”, Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1957, pg. 103
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