Ethical Addresses, Volume 7

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S. Burns Weston, 1901
 

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Page 49 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 53 - London, — has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bitterly.
Page 90 - eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone ; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own ; 'E keeps 'is side-arms awful : 'e leaves 'em all about, An' then comes up the regiment an
Page 7 - For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
Page 73 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Page 44 - Nevertheless, the consent of mankind has always, in spite of the philosophers, given precedence to the soldier. And this is right. For the soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain. This, without well knowing its own meaning, the world honours it for.
Page 8 - Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
Page 43 - No man ever knew, or can know, what will be the ultimate result to himself, or to others, of any given line of conduct . But every man may know, and most of us do know, what is a just and unjust act.
Page 45 - And as the captain of a ship is bound to be the last man to leave his ship in case of wreck, and to share his last crust with the sailors in case of famine, so the manufacturer, in any commercial crisis or distress, is bound to take the suffering of it with his men, and even to take more of it for himself than he allows his men to feel; as a father would in a famine, shipwreck, or battle, sacrifice himself for his son.
Page 51 - My friends, the follies of modern Liberalism, 'many and great though they be, are practically ' summed in this denial or neglect of the quality 'and intrinsic value of things. Its rectangular ' beatitudes and spherical benevolences, — theology ' of universal indulgence, and jurisprudence which ' will hang no rogues, mean, one and all of them, in ' the root, incapacity of discerning, or refusal to dis'cern, worth and un...

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