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The lack of a true philosophy,
the failure to recognise [recognize] any kind
of a "Power not ourselves working
for righteousness" have bred a con-
-tempt for law, robbed justice of her
majesty, torn from her represen-
-tative his ermine, lowered all rev-
-erence from manhood, turned
youth to flippancy, and rendered
childhood brazen; have disowned
the word sin, blotted out crime,
dissipated wrong, changed wicked-
-ness into romance, guilt into weak-
-ness, vice into experiment, depra-
-vity into attraction, ugliness into
misfortune, and all the doomed