“The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.”
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.