Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of
morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing
to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an
impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious
choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a
suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral
charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy
growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not
forgive or accept any breach of morality. Give the benefit of the doubt to
those who seek to know; but treat as potential killers those specimens of
insolent depravity who make demands upon you, announcing that they have and
seek no reasons, proclaiming, as a license, that they “just feel it”—or those
who reject an irrefutable argument by saying: “It’s only logic,” which means:
“It’s only reality.” The only realm opposed to reality is the realm and premise
of death.