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our heart of hearts we feel the truth of the teaching, “Resist not evil.” This seems to us to be the highest ideal to aim at; yet to teach this doctrine only would be equivalent to condemning a vast proportion of mankind. Not only so, it would be making men feel that they were always doing wrong, cause in them scruples of conscience in regard to all their actions; it would weaken them, and that kind of constant self-disapproval would breed more vice than any other weakness. To the man who has begun to hate himself, the gate to degeneration has already become open, and this is true of nations as well.
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves ; becaưse to advance onwards. we must have faith in our. selves first and then in God. He who has no faith in himself can never have -faith in God. Therefore, the only alternative remaining to us is to recognize that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself
