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ideality man recognizes the purest truths, the highest notions of
justice; in actuality he departs from all these, and his entire
career is confessedly a life of self-falseness and clever injustice.
This barren ideality, and this actuality replete with bitter fruits,
are the two hemispheres to be united for their mutual completion, and
their common central point is the reality antecedent to them both.
This point is not to be discovered by the rubbing of these two half
globes together, by their curved sides, nor even as a school boy
would attempt to unite his severed marble by the flat sides. The
circle must be drawn anew from reality as a central point, the new
radius embracing equally the new ideality and the new actuality.
"With this newness of love in men there would resplendently
shine forth in them a newness of light, and a newness of life,
charming the steadiest beholder."_--Introduction_, p. 4.
The remedy, which Mr. Lane proposes for the existing evils, is
his "True Harmonic Association." But he more justly confides in
"ceasing from doing" than in exhausting efforts at inadequate
remedies.
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