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Speaker 1: Conquest, not resignation. He who has undertaken the sublime task

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of overcoming himself does not resign himself to anything that

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is evil. He subjects himself only to that which is good.

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Resignation to evil is the lowest weakness. Obedience to good

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is the highest power. To resign one's self to sin

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and sorrow, to ignorance and suffering is to say, in effect,

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I give up. I am defeated. Life is evil, and

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I submit. Such resignation to evil is the reverse of religion.

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It is the direct denial of good. It elevates evil

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to the position of supreme power in the universe. Such

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submission to evil shows itself in a selfish and sorrowful life,

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a life devoid of strength against temptation and that of

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joy and calm, which are the manifestation of a mind

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that is dominated by good. Man. Is not framed for

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perpetual resignation and sorrow, but for final victory and joy.

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All the spiritual laws of the universe are with the

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good Man. For good preserves and shields. There are no

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laws of evil. Its nature is destruction and desolation. The

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consciousness modification of the character away from evil and towards

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good forms. At present no part in the common course

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of education. Even our religious teachers have lost this knowledge

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and practice, and cannot therefore instruct concerning it. Moral growth

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is so far in the great mass of mankind unconscious,

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and is brought about by the stress and struggle of life.

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The time will come, however, when the conscious formation of

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character will form an important part in the education of youth,

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and when no man will be able to feel the

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position of preacher and lets does he be a man

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of habitual self control, unblemished integrity, and exalted purity, so

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as to be able to give sound instruction in the

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making of character, which will then be the main feature

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of religion. The doctrine herein set forth by the author

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is the doctrine of conquest over evil, the annihilation of sin,

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and necessarily the permanent establishment of man and the knowledge

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of good, and in the enjoyment of perpetual peace. This

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is the teaching of the masters of all religions in

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all ages. Howsoever it may have been disguised and distorted

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by the unenlightened. It is the doctrine of all the

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perfect ones that were and will be the doctrine of

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all the perfect ones that are to come. It is

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the doctrine of truth. And the conquest is not of

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an evil without, not of evil men, or evil spirits,

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or evil things, but of the evil within, of evil thoughts,

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evil desires, evil deeds. For when every man has destroyed

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the evil within his own heart, to where in the

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whole vast universe will any one be able to point

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and say there is evil? In that great day, when

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all men have become good within, all traces of evil

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will have vanished from the earth, Sin and sorrow will

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be unknown, and there will be universal joy for evermore