nat-u-ral : 1) based on an inherent sense of right and wrong; 2a) being in accordance with or determined by nature.
In "The Birthmark", Nathaniel Hawthorne writes the story of a scientist who marries a beautiful young woman with only one imperfection; a crimson birthmark on her left cheek. Aylmer later becomes obsessed with this flaw and thinks nothing but of the removal of the birthmark, which would then render his bride "perfect". Even though Georgiana has never disliked her birthmark, she resolves that the only way …showed first 85 words of 969 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 969 total…in Hawthorn's day and in the present where not every question has an answer and so when something dealing with religion or spirituality comes into question, science steps in to be the preferred method of rationalizing as opposed to blind faith in the creator. This is at the very heart of the moral in that the constant replacement of faith with a need to rationalize all areas of uncertainty through science will erode the very foundations of which religious beliefs are based, which is faith.
