The white people machen5/28/2023 'Great people of all kinds forsake the imperfect copies and go to the 'And you think the great sinner, then, will be an ascetic, as well as thegreat saint?' Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures we muddlethrough the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alikesecond-rate, unimportant.' The merely car-nal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a greatsaint. Supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. I think you are falling into the very gener-Īl error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good but the 'You are speaking of the saints?''Yes, and of the sinners, too. There are many, Ithink, who eat dry crusts and drink water, with a joy infinitely sharperthan anything within the experience of the "practical" epicure.' 'Yes,' he went on, 'magic is justified of her children. He had been brought by a friend to thismouldering house in a northern suburb, through an old garden to theroom where Ambrose the recluse dozed and dreamed over his books. Each isan ecstasy, a withdrawal from the common life.'Ĭotgrave listened, interested. 'Sorcery and sanctity,' said Ambrose, 'these are the only realities.
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