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is self-development. To realise one's natureoneself perfectly — that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, now-a-days. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed they hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion, — these are the two things that govern us. And yet..." I believe..."
"Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy," said Hallward, deep in his work, and only conscious that a look had come into the lad'sDorian's face that he had never seen there before.
"And yetI believe," continued Lord Henry, in his low musical voice, and with that graceful wave of the hand that waswas all thought so characteristic of him, and that he had even in his Eton days, "I believe that if one man was to live his life out fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream — I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of youth that we would
