“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.
Perfection is not to be ganged by mystic commandments to practice
the impossible, and your moral stature is not to be gauged by matters not
open to your choice. Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that
is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality—
not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your
mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an
absolute.Give the benefit of the doubt to those who seek to know;
