The Singing Bone — Richard Austin Freeman

A surprising amount of nonsense has been talked about conscience On the one hand remorse or the ldquo again bite rdquo as certain scholars of ultra Teutonic leanings would prefer to call it on the other hand ldquo an easy consciencerdquo these have been accepted as the determining factors of happiness or the reverse Of course there is an element of truth in the ldquo easy consciencerdquo view but it begs the whole question A particularly hardy conscience may be quite easy under the most unfavourable conditions conditions in which the more feeble conscience might be severely afflicted with the ldquo again bite rdquo d then it seems to be the fact that some fortunate persons have no conscience at all a negative gift that raises them above the mental vicissitudes of the common herd of humanity