Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Censorious People. [ARTICLE]

Censorious People.

The most conspicuous peculiarity in the censorious mind is that it never makes any allowance for conditions or circumstances which a humane and liberal mind would feel to be somewhat palliative of tibe error. It is itself the standard for all moral actions. What it feels it would not or should not do, no other person should do. The ardent and thoughtless impulses of yourth—the misfortune of an education wanrtdng In control and guidanceare never taken into account. It would be quite in min to put in as a defense that, for example, poverty was greatly the cause of the offense. In their own comforts, they cannot Imagine what it Is to be . pressed by want and temptation; nor, if they could would they be willing to admit any such excess. If they reason at all upon the matter, It appears to them that admitting such excuses is only an encouragement to others to go and do likewise. But the fact Is they have it not In their natures to so far pity a fellow creature as to allow for extenuating consideration of any kind.