The axiom "To know all ceased to have any! meaning. Yet suddenly "4 door opens, and one sees for a moment into the heart and mind of another ud is humbled to the dust for hasty} judgments and harsh criticisms.
But sorely if we knew all. there would be no virtue in forgiving. al, The ficulty. with which most of us have to contend is that imoginetion and sympathy, a sense of justice dealing fail when needed, and we judge discover below the surface the only facts which of value.
The world would be far more wonderful and' its people noble. Wwe could think that many" things that annoy us in those with whom wwe are thrown are. symptoms of some hidden mental trouble. Instead] of being offended oF insulted by 9 hasty answer or a blank look, the really thourehtfal person who looks below the surface would take for runted that the one who has Cflended does not' meun tobe rude i, but that he oF she tumult of mind.
One ix atticken with remorse to find that someone of whone conduct we have been critical in. bravely Urying to hide intense pain, physctal or mental, and to endure in silence Ansiets. strain, sorrow, and. even deferred account "for, lapses, for apparent slights. For the tive are poor, imperfect ereattires, atv we seldom seck forthe Hidtdin motive. Doctors probe the reason for physical condit Taxon, such ax ourselves, soe onl} reaulte, which we imagine to be related facts, What a chance would tome over the World if in a bli 1 flush we could see the hidden! motives for conduct, catch a glimpse! Of the Wtle.teageies, the ries the fears which are veiled "by Alecent reticence, by self-control, courage, by. the instinct that Drompts the brave to sulfer_alon whether physical agony, the anes} fof murdered faith, or Ropex for the fut' smashed stem
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