Excerpt from The Overland Monthly, Vol. 1: Devoted to the Development of the Country; January-June, 1883
It is interesting to observe the steady beauty in the character and life.
Few will doubt, then, the helpful effect of intellectual culture on the moral nature, and thus on the right conduct of life. But how few, how very few, seem to recognize the truth of the converse proposition; viz., the helpful effect of moral culture on the intel lectual perception of truth! And yet this is even more profoundly true than the other. Yes, in all the most difficult and important practical questions of life the clear percep tion of truth is almost wholly conditioned on the purity of the moral sentiments.
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