TO YOU--MY FRIEND




FOREWORD.

The glory of our fathers was their emphasis of the principle of
self-care and self-culture. Finding that he who first made the most of
himself was best fitted to make something of others, the teachers of
yesterday unceasingly plied men with motives of personal
responsibility. Influenced by the former generation, our age has
organized the principle of individualism into its home, its school, its
market-place and forum. By reason of the increase in gold, books,
travel and personal luxuries, some now feel that selfness is beginning
to degenerate into selfishness. The time, therefore, seems to have
fully come when the principle of self-care should receive its
complement through the principle of care for others. These chapters
assert the debt of wealth to poverty, the debt of wisdom to ignorance,
the debt of strength to weakness. If "A Man's Value to Society"
affirms the duty of self-culture and character, these studies emphasize
the law of social sympathy and social service.

Newell Dwight Hillis.




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