INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY WITHOUT MORAL INTEGRITY.
If in this case the intellect be strong, its possessor is dangerous to himself and others. Keen, self-possessed, always alert, having accumulated the means of deception or skill in persuasion, he may exert all his powers to enrich himself at the expense of honest men. He may build up a party in politics or religion; he may beguile others who possess moral integrity into fanaticism or enterprises that will wreck them. The most complete illustration is Aaron Burr—intellectual integrity of the highest grade, moral integrity almost nil. But thousands of men11resemble him; many of them pass thru life not rightly estimated except by their victims, having a high reputation; and others ruling in their little or large spheres by the fear they excite of their rigid adherence to their schemes, of the skill with which they promote them, and of their threats of vengeance. —The Christian Advocate.