Excerpt from The Secret Lodge System: An Unique, Comprehensive and Impartial Study and Discussion of This Important Subject in All Its Phases
Motive gives character to action. This is a settled principle in moral philosophy. A man may do a good thing for an evil purpose, or he may do an evil thing for a good purpose. In the first in stance, the man's character is vitiated, though the action in itself is commendable. In the second case the man's motive is not to be impeached, but his judgment as to strict morality is to be con demned. In the Divine ethics, the lesson is, God forbid that we should do evil that good may come. In matters of necessity we must choose the less of two evils. The writer is not conscious of any evil feeling or motive in the composition of this work or in its presentation to the public for their consideration. He has laid aside all prejudice, ill-feeling, spite and malice, and has in no way per mitted himself to indulge in a spirit of retaliation.
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