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Excerpt from The Heidenmauer, Vol. 3 of 3: Or the Benedictines
Mere result of opinion and habit, since it is even more apparent in the guileless and untrained child than in the most practised man, and na ture has so plainly set her mark upon all its workings, as to prove its identity with the fear ful being that forms the incorporeal part of our existence. Like all else that is good, it may be weakened and perverted, or be otherwise abused; but, like every thing that comes from the same high source, even amid these vicious changes, it will retain traces of its divine author. We look upon this unwearied monitor as a ves tige of that high condition from which the race fell; and we hold it to be beyond dispute, that precisely as men feel and admit its in?uence do they approach, or recede from, their original condition of innocence.
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