The Moral Vision
A Shaft of Light
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A SHAFT OF LIGHT
The owner of a transport business once found
himself in weak and vulnerable position because,
for technical reasons, he had once had one of his
vehicles registered in the name of another person
several years before, and that person still held its
license. The license holder decided one fine day that
he would take possession of the vehicle himself,
and that its real owner would have to make do with
a paltry sum of money in exchange. The owner
naturally felt that the most dreadful injustice was
being done to him and, greatly incensed, he was
determined to have his revenge. Night and day he
lived in a frenzy, thinking of ways and means to
eliminate his enemy. Truly he wished to crush him
like an insect. For six long months he lived in this
state of morbid preoccupation, losing all interest in
his home and his business, and becoming, finally,
like the ghost of his former self. Then, one day, he
had an experience which changed the course of his
life. As he was pacing up and down one of the
streets of the town where he lived, lost in black,
vengeful fantasies, he heard the unmistakable
sounds of someone making a speech before a large
