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0264 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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under various manifestation, and, lastly, chiefly, to
urge that inward charity of thought, and that out-
ward charity of act (soon perhaps to follow), which
is born only of intelligent sympathy.
This tendency to seek the good that is cloaked in
evil is one that may not at once meet the approval
of Exeter Hall or Faneuil Hall, though ultimately
their reach toward honest things would bring us
together. Uncompromising war upon an obvious
evil, with incidental wholesale condemnation of men
who have inherited an offensive institution,—such
is the rough-and-ready method, which has a merit
that I shall not contest and cannot attain.
Polyandry, polygamy, monastic power, feudal law,
—all these appear as abuses to the hasty eye; and
indeed they fall within the universal rule of good-
and-bad, the bad being prominent to our examina-
tion. But they will "yield to treatment," to the
treatment of physical science relieving physical
want. Let us then give, nor urge even this, a
knowledge of those things which have helped us in
this world (as we think), and let this force work
its fated changes. As to our religion, let it be
offered only by humble, patient men who shall not
damn a thousand dear traditions as deadly sins.
Perhaps then some of their hearers will prefer
to utter the name Christ, rather than some other
sound, in addressing the Power behind the Law
and the Hope.