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I early learned that there were two natures in me. this caused me a great deal of trouble, till i worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, i finally succeeded in balancing both natures. ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. i have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

-Jack London

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I Early Learned That There Were Two

Jack London

I early learned that there were two natures in me. this caused me a great deal of trouble, till i worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, i finally succeeded in balancing both natures. ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. i have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

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Saint augustine cries, lord i cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. according to saint paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of god, and saint augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. saint augustine says, those who seek and find, find not. he who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. saint paul says, what i was, was not i, it was god in me.

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