Little could harm him. Whatever occurred, instead
of exclaiming, "How calamitous!" he would simply ask, "What fresh
opportunities do these strange circumstances present for enlarged
living? Let me add this new discipline to what I had before. Seeking
as I am to become expanded into the infinite, this experience
discloses a new avenue thither. All things work together for good to
them that love the Lord."
REFERENCES ON SELF-DEVELOPMENT
Bradley's Ethical Studies, essay vi.
Green's Prolegomena of Ethics, bk. iii. ch. ii.
Alexander's Moral Order and Progress, bk. iii. ch. iv.
Muirhead's Elements of Ethics, bk. iii. ch. iii.
Mackenzie's Manual of Ethics, pt. i. ch. vii.
Dewey in Philos. Journal, Dec., 1893.
VI
SELF-SACRIFICE
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The view of human goodness presented in the preceding chapter is one
which is at present finding remarkably wide acceptance. Philosophers
are often reproached with an indisposition to agree, and naturally
where inquiry is active diversity will obtain. But to-day there
appears a strange unanimity as regards the ultimate formula of ethics.
The empirical schools state this as the highest form of the struggle
for existence; the idealistic, as self-realization. The two are the
same so far as they both regard morality as having to do with the
development of life in persons.
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