....in which we live; or so we are told. We are not primitives. We are not cave dwellers. We are part of a sophisticated society, a refined, elegant culture in which good manners predominate and only the highest values hold sway.
Well, you have to give credit - it sounds good, doesn't it? (I certainly haven't been bombarded by good manners in recent months.) And as long as we ignore the things that happen in dark corners under murky shadows, we can uphold this comforting, if questionable, belief. Yet the world is surely, not just what we choose to see it is, but how we choose to make it.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions,
not our circumstances. (Martha Washington)
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