[a] I believe that the metaphor is comparing the mountain and the human mind. The passage is asking if over time the mountain loses its vegetation and is stripped from its old appearance, does the mountain retain its old appearance. So when man loses his original “good nature” it is similar to how the mountain is loses its tress.
[b] The author believes that human nature is originally good, and that evil is not born but learned from our wrong doings/failures.
[c] In ethical terms some characteristics that would undermined a person’s soul or self would be there habits and there background how they were thought and how they go about living.
[d] I think that some core values you are just born with. I think morally there are values that we know are right and wrong, not because we are taught that they are wrong but because we already believe it to be wrong.
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[1] I think that he is…show more content… “Lincoln didn't do great work because he solved the problem of his melancholy; the problem of his melancholy was all the more fuel for the fire of his great work.” This quote from the article really shows what the author was trying to speak about not that he over came and destroyed slavery or his time In the white house but rather his troubles with mental illness. [b] My brother really likes President Lincoln and all that he did for our nation through out history, he has had possibly the biggest impact has a President. I would defiantly show him this article, since it dives into the mental health of the president and how he over came it. . "He felt very strongly," said his friend Joseph Gillespie, "that there was more of discomfort than real happiness in human existence under the most favorable circumstances and the general current of his reflections was in that channel." In this quote Lincoln continues to struggle with his depression and is open about how he is
