She does not
infer insincerity: it is automatically rejected.
July.--North-easterly wind, strong: hateful in the streets and even
in the house: dust everywhere. Inclined to shut the windows and
stay indoors, but went out for a long walk up to the flag-staff. A
perfect day for that view. The bay all shades of blue; here and
there deep, and, inshore, the blue is broken with pure white from
the tops of the waves: the yellow beach to the farthest point
clasping the sea like an arm. So beautiful that it gives pain: it
is not possible to extend oneself to it.
Whether truth does or does not lie in the mean depends on the
selection of the extremes. A mechanical choice of the mean is
stupidity.
The Athanasian Creed is not objectionable because of its damnatory
clauses. Neglect to observe the finest distinctions continually
involves damnation. The difference between a vice and a virtue may
be a hair-line. The true reason for rejecting the Creed is that it
is manufactured, that it is not a statement of what is seen and felt
to be true.
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