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In the Driftway
March 12, 1930 issue

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A Drifter's correspondent reminds him that some people of the younger generation are interested in principles and definitions. All definitions of virtue reported by the Drifter's correspondent seem to have some validity. Undeniably virtue is an inconvenience upon occasions, although not merely that, as the Drifter's correspondent quotes one of her friends as saying. Virtue does seem also to be a necessity to most persons, which is what it is meant when it is said that if there had not been a God it would have been necessary for mankind to invent one.

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VIRTUES; DEFINITION (Philosophy); ETHICS; HUMAN acts; CONDUCT of life; QUALITY of life
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