Mortal "history repeats itself" in motive, action and result, whatever the seeming aim. The light of Christian Science renders vivid the following picture of mortal mind's righteousness:—"I think the form of failure to which it is most liable is this, that being generous-hearted, and wholly intending always to do right, it does not attend to the external laws of right, but thinks it must necessarily do right because it means to do so, and therefore does wrong without finding it out; and then when the consequences of its wrong come upon it, or upon others connected with it, it cannot conceive that the wrong is in anywise of its causing or of its doing, but flies into wrath... as feeling itself wholly innocent, which leads it farther astray, until there is nothing that it is not capable of doing with a good conscience."
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Mortal "history repeats itself" in motive, action and result, whatever...
From the September 1892 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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