Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd.

  • Paul Charles Dubois
Date:
1909
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Credit: Self-control and how to secure it = (L'éducation de soi-même) / by Paul Dubois ; Authorized translation by Harry Hutcheson Boyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    earth, the moral idea planted in the soul springs up; it develops and spreads like the ear that scatters its seeds broadcast, multi- plying them indefinitely. When one has ascer- tained this increase of good grain carefully sown in well-prepared ground, one is no more discouraged than the farmer by the diffi- culties of the task; he unflaggingly tears out the deep-rooted furrow weed and knows how to increase the yield of his ground. Let us do like him. We all feel more or less strongly the necessity for getting rid of our faults, of cultivating our good qualities; above all, we like to lay upon others the arduous task of getting rid of their faults rather than of ours. Everyone would welcome with joy the moral progress of all humanity, but we all become discouraged in advance in thinking of the slowness of this culture, and the majority of men welcome with a sceptical smile every proposition of moral orthopaedia applied to individuals or to crowds. One cannot work in this state of mind for the common weal. On the contrary, one must, above all, believe in the possibility of im- provement in the human soul, and cultivate [14]