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Character. We must do so in the
midst of an environment not entirely of
our own making. We must do so
under the force of prejudicial
impulses, biases, and tendencies,
of which we are not aware. We
can not regulate the time or manner
of the crisis at which our action shall
be taken. Our liberty consists solely
in our choosing, and the way of it. We
can not choose between good & bad,
as such. We can choose only between
objects desirable to us, not of the same
kind, and value. We can choose evil
only by first making the evil our good, and
then choosing it for the good we have by