Natural Religion
Natural Religion
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Is life but a livelihood 1 We may no doubt think ourselves happy in not being misled, like so many nations, by false ideals. On the other hand, have we any ideal at all ? Does not this eternal question of a livelihood keep us at a level from which no ideal is visible ? In old biographies we read of high and generous feelings, the love of fame, the ambition of great achievements, not to speak of higher feelings yet. We neither have such feelings nor yet any bitter regret to think that we cannot ...have them. We are too tame for either aspirations or regrets, or if we have them we know as CHAP. I RELIGION AND THE WORLD 155 a matter of course that they cannot he indulged. Money must be made first, and a good deal of it ; comfort, not to say luxury, cannot be dispensed with, for the very thought of any kind of self-denial is too medieval ; then comes pleasure, of which we can scarcely have enough. When all these claims are satisfied, the balance of our time may be given to our ideal, if we have one at all ; we are perhaps aware that so much will not suffice, but then we are humble, and do not even in our dreams expect to accomplish much.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Is life but a livelihood 1 We may no doubt think ourselves happy in not being misled, like so many nations, by false ideals. On the other hand, have we any ideal at all ? Does not this eternal question of a livelihood keep us at a level from which no ideal is visible ? In old biographies we read of high and generous feelings, the love of fame, the ambition of great achievements, not to speak of higher feelings yet. We neither have such feelings nor yet any bitter regret to think that we cannot ...have them. We are too tame for either aspirations or regrets, or if we have them we know as CHAP. I RELIGION AND THE WORLD 155 a matter of course that they cannot he indulged. Money must be made first, and a good deal of it ; comfort, not to say luxury, cannot be dispensed with, for the very thought of any kind of self-denial is too medieval ; then comes pleasure, of which we can scarcely have enough. When all these claims are satisfied, the balance of our time may be given to our ideal, if we have one at all ; we are perhaps aware that so much will not suffice, but then we are humble, and do not even in our dreams expect to accomplish much.
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