sin and redemption

by John Garnier

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 ...of the evil in man. The restraints exercised by human laws, and also by human opinions, are like the chains and bars by which savage animals are kept from doing injury, and these animals would show their true nature directly those restraints were removed. To all those, in whom, being alienated from God, the law of the flesh is predominant, those restraints are constantly irksome, and, individually, they would often be gladly free from them. Considering, then, how great the influence of these restraints must be, we may well conceive that the inward and unseen evil of human nature may be very much greater than it appears, or is supposed to be. The restraint of law and public opinion is naturally greatest on those whose position exposes them to public scrutiny. But where this is not the case, as in many of the departments of trade and commerce, the selfishness of human nature, which does not hesitate to profit, even when the profit is but small, by the suffering of others, is only too manifest. The recent exposure of the 'sweating system' is a representative instance of this selfishness, and shows how deep-seated and universal it is, and how it leads men to inflict misery, even on the miserable, for the sake of the smallest gain to themselves. Nor is this confined to any particular class. Extortion is practised by thousands whenever the opportunity of success presents itself, and the adulteration in articles of food, the schemes for robbing others without infringing the letter of the law, the bubble companies, the pitiless way in which many profit by the sufferings of the widow and the orphan, and many other things of a like nature, are sufficient evidences of the dominion of selfishness even in this professedly Christian country. Some have, in fact, asserted ...

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Published May 20, 2012