Capitolo 10
what literature and our his/her own provisioning of hopes, have a tendency to slip away
from us and to leave not sadly us driven and perplexed when we try
act on them.
Our conceptions of the morality, as all our other ideas pass through a
course of development; difficulty enters repairing our behavior,
what you/he/she has been hardened in customs and the habits, to this change
moral conceptions. When this rectification is not made, we suffer the
effort and the indecision of believing a hypothesis and to act on
another.
There probably is not relationship in life that is changing our democracy
more quickly of the benevolent relationship--that relationship that gets
between benefactor and beneficiary; to the same duration you/he/she is not stung
of contact in our modern experience of which so clearly reveals the lack
that equality that implicates the democracy. We have reached the moment when
democracy has made such raids on this relationship that the
gratification of the old style benevolent man has gone forever; while,
at the same time, the a lot of need and existence of the charity, deny us the
the consolation and the liberty that it will finally give the democracy.
It is rather obvious that the ethics of none of us are clearly defined,
and we am continually forced to act in you seek some habit, based on
sentences that we don't contain anymore. This way our respect of the effect of
environment and the social conditions have undoubtedly moved faster than ours
methods to administer the charity are changed. Previously when it was
he/she believed that poverty was synonymous of vice and the idleness and that
the prosperous man was the straight man, charity was administered
harshly with a good conscience; for the benevolent agent really blamed
the individual for his/her poverty and the a lot of fact of his really superior
prosperity gave him a certain conscience of the superior morality. Us
you/he/she has learned from when that duration to measure from the other standards, and it has
stopped granting exclusive respect to the ability of money-profit; while