Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything. - Theodore Dreiser

Cowperwood was shocked by the nudity of the Venus which conveyed an atmosphere of European freedom not common to America;

All men should be good, all women virtuous. Wherefore, villain, hast thou failed?

course. For in some blind, dualistic way both she and Asa insisted, as do all religionists, in disassociating God from harm and error and misery, while granting Him nevertheless supreme control. They would seek for something else — some malign, treacherous, deceiving power which, in the face of God’s omniscience and omnipotence, still beguiles and betrays — and find it eventually in the error and perverseness of the human heart, which God has made, yet which He does not control, because He does not want to control it.