In other words, it is denied that there is any such thing as sin. What we so regard is, as some maintain, nothing more than limitation of being. To be free from sin, we must be free from limitation, i. e., infinite. As in a forest, we see trees of every shape and size, perfectly and imperfectly developed, and this diversity is itself a good so among men there are some more, and some less conformed to the ideal standard of reason and right, but this is not an evil. Others say that what we call sin is the necessary condition of virtue.
Moral goodness is mastery over moral evil.
There cannot be one without the other. All would be dead and motionless, a stagnant sea, were it not for this antagonism. Others again say that sin has only a subjective reality. It is analogous to pain. But that is simply our own concern.