Good and evil

"..evil exists...and evil increases automatically. Inertia, laziness, cowardice, death, are self-multiplying...good 'is' not, except by propagation; it is not in any man, but originates only between teacher and student, between father and son...No man is good. But the word or act that links men may be good. And by link-work evil has to be constantly combatted...[but many] ignore this constant reproduction of the good, and leave the arousing, evoking and conveying of goodness to accident." - Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 'The Soul of William James,' in I Am An Impure Thinker, p. 27.