When A Strong Normal Character Which Has Consciously Made Wrong
Moves, Averse To The Established Order Of Things, And So Become A
Force Of Negation, Comes Into Contact With Weaker Or Undeveloped
Natures, It Sometimes Produces In Them An Actual Change Of Moral
Fibre, And They Become Abnormal. Instead Of A Right Quantity On The
Wrong Track, They Are A Wrong Quantity, And Exactly In Accordance
With Their Environments. In The Case Of The Carroll Family, Arthur
Carroll, Who Was In Himself Of A Perfect And Unassailable Balance As
To The Right Estimate Of Things, And The Weighing Of Cause And
Effect, Who Had Never In His Whole Life Taken A Step Blindfold By Any
Imperfection Of Spiritual Vision, Who Had Never For His Own Solace
Lost His Own Sense Of Responsibility For His Lapses, Had Made His
Family, In A Great Measure, Irresponsible For The Same Faults.