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The Awakening of Spring 127
the straight path. His writing, on the contrary,
tramples on principles. His writing is no evidence of
a chance slip in the usual way ;
it sets forth with dread
ful plainness and a frankly definite purpose that natural
longing, that propensity for immorality, because it is im
morality. His writing manifests that exceptional state
of spiritual corruption which we jurists classify under
the term
"
moral imbecility."
Between the parents and the educators,
Melchior is martyred even as Wendla. He is
sent to the House of Correction; but being of
sturdier stock than the girl, he survives.
Not so his chum Moritz. Harassed by the im
pelling forces of his awakened nature, and unable
to grapple with the torturous tasks demanded by
his
"
educators
"
at the most critical period of his
life, Moritz fails in the examinations. He can
not face his parents: they have placed all their
hope in him, and have lashed him, by the subtle
cruelty of gratitude, to the grindstone till his brain
reeled. Moritz is the third victim in the tragedy,
the most convenient explanation of which is given
by Pastor Kahlbauch in the funeral sermon.
Pastor Kahlbauch. He who rejects the grace with
which the Everlasting Father has blessed those born in
sin, he shall die a spiritual death !
He, however, who
in willful carnal abnegation of God s proper honor, lives
for and serves evil, shall die the death of the body !
Who, however, wickedly throws away from him the cross
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