I think that this excerpt from the
Compensation essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson explains my views better than I can:
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Originally Posted by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fallacy lay in the immense concession, that the bad are successful; that justice is not done now. The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth; announcing the presence of the soul; the omnipotence of the will: and so establishing the standard of good and ill, of success and falsehood.
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