ABSTRACT
When we begin life, good and evil are such marked, clearly-divided things that gradations do not exist for us. We go out to war against evil; people, who choose it, are all massed together, we can hardly realize that they exist. Then we begin to see all the subtle temptations, to estimate a little what is resisted, to measure men, not only from the perfectly noble position which they might have taken, but sometimes also upwards, from the gulf into which they might have fallen.
