Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
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