equipped to give. What a limited imagination, for those in a corner, to think they can rectify the position by accommodating themselves to contemporary fashions.
But however unfortunate the position in the community at large, the position at home is worse. A man is compelled to live with his wife, whom he knows is imperfect - we all are. He has to accept her as a real person, if he wants real harmony; he must not blind his eyes to her faults, he must view them compassionately, and expect her to view his compassionately. He must not blind his eyes to her faults, but equally he must not make her faults his own, or the couple cease to be a Christian home, and to some extent becomes a thieves' kitchen. He desires to become one with her, but if he is not careful in the process of becoming one he becomes corrupted. Everyone of any maturity knows that you cannot change another person. Not even love can change another person. You have to learn to tolerate another's faults, learn to live with them, and to accept them, without pretending that they are any different from what they are. If you blind your eyes to what they are, you are in effect lying to yourself, and in Professor Collingwood's phrase you corrupt your own consciousness. You really need a perfect consciousness to be able to cope. To avoid the many temptations to allow his consciousness to be corrupted that the process of living with another person involves, the ordinary man, living in a semidetached house in a suburb of an industrial town, needs to have the perfect consciousness of God!