” – Here is my position. Since all ways of life are tainted with fraud, since to live and speak the truth is beyond human strength and courage, is it not better for a man that he engage in some straightforward, comparatively harmless cheating than if he risk his mental integrity in some ambiguous position and fall at last into self righteousness?
That is the essential danger. That is the thing I always guard against. Heed that! It is the master sin. Self righteousness.
– But on your principles you might do almost anything!
– Precisely! “
Chaffery’s philosophy outlined in ‘Love And Mr Lewisham’ by H.G. Wells
