[The Investment of Influence by Newell Dwight Hillis]@TWC D-Link bookThe Investment of Influence CHAPTER VII 31/32
When the heart speaks it is God within making overtures for man to come upward toward home and heaven. RENOWN THROUGH SELF-RENUNCIATION. "To live absolutely each man for himself could not be possible if all were to live together.
In course of time, in addition to utility, certain more sensitive individuals began to see a charm, a beauty in this consideration for others.
Gradually a sort of sanctity attached to it, and nature had once more illustrated her mysterious method of evolving from rough and even savage necessities her lovely shapes and her tender dreams.
To assert, then, with some recent critics of Christianity, that that law of brotherly love which is its central teaching is impracticable of application to the needs of society, is simply to deny the very first law by which society exists."-- _Richard Le Galliene, in "The Religion of a Literary Man._" "It is only with renunciations that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.
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