the region of the speculative, the
merely potential, that the word
"character" takes on that tremendous
meaning with which thousands of
years of actual happenings have in-
vested it. A purely ideal world --
a world fashioned wholly apart from
the realities which convey definite,
concrete revelations of what is in us
and in our world -- would neces-
sarily be an unmoral world. The
relationships which bind men to-
gether and give human intercourse
such depth and richness spring into
being only when they are actually
entered upon; they could never be
understood or foreseen in a world of
pure thought; nor would it be pos-
sible, in such a world, to realise that
reaction of the deed upon the doer
which creates character, nor that far-@
reaching influence of the deed upon

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