human
You will go hungry if you will not eat what is put on the table, this is not moral influence. But, if I say to it
gpt
You will pray, honor your parents, respect the crucifix, speak the truth, etc., for this belongs to man and is man's calling, or even
human
then moral influence is complete; then a man is to bend before the _calling_ of man, be tractable, become humble, give up his will for an alien one which is set up as rule and law; he is to _abase_ himself before something _higher_: self-abasement.
gpt
He that abaseth himself shall be exalted. Yes, yes, children must early be _made_ to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom
human
But, for heaven's sake, if one is to give children no good instruction, why, then they will run straight into the jaws of sin, and become good-for-nothing hoodlums! Gently, you prophets of evil. Good-for-nothing in your sense they certainly will become; but your sense happens to be a very good-for-nothing sense. The impudent lads will no longer let anything be whined and chattered into them by you, and will have no sympathy for all the follies for which you have been raving and driveling since the memory of man began; they will abolish the law of inheritance, _i. e._ they will not be willing to _inherit_ your stupidities as you inherited them from your fathers; they destroy _inherited sin_.[53] If you command them,
gpt
Bend before the Most High, they will answer:
human
If he wants to bend us, let him come himself and do it; we, at least, will not bend of our own accord.