Salad for the solitary and the social: . which men, as members ofsociety, can confer on each other—a willingness to confer andto receive; it is toleration, accessibility, and expectation. Infact, it is charity in its social aspect, as concerned with the 342 THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. minor satisfactions and perplexities of life. Conscience israrely a sleepless influence. * Let us, then, seek to eschew the idea of living exclusively forself—narrowing down the sphere of our earthly existence to soignoble a purpose; rather ought we to embellish it with theoutgQshings of a generous good-will to t
Salad for the solitary and the social: . which men, as members ofsociety, can confer on each other—a willingness to confer andto receive; it is toleration, accessibility, and expectation. Infact, it is charity in its social aspect, as concerned with the 342 THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. minor satisfactions and perplexities of life. Conscience israrely a sleepless influence. * Let us, then, seek to eschew the idea of living exclusively forself—narrowing down the sphere of our earthly existence to soignoble a purpose; rather ought we to embellish it with theoutgQshings of a generous good-will to those who are less en-dowed than ourselves. If the Divine maxim be admitted, we enrich ourselves mostwhen most generous in our benefactions to others. How glori-ous it is—the consciousness of doing good! What agalaxy of the great and good, who have scattered sunshine overthe dark places of sorrow and suffering, illumine the scroll ofour human history in all ages of the world,—worthy of all imi-tation ! * Saturday
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