The Life That Counts
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85 THE FACE OF AN EAGLE. II. 97 LOSING AND FINDING 109 INTRODUCTION W T HA7 'counts is the good life; there is no other worth living. But whatever is good is good for something beyond itself; goodness in the abstract, goodness iso- lated and unrelated, does not exist. Goodness implies a goal, an objetl, a something on which to expend its energy. The good life is the life that reaches out, that fulfils itself in ministration to other lives. The life that counts is the life that serves ; the life... that counts most is the life that serves most.
Service has many forms : to lead an army in free- dom's behalf, to help shape beneficent laws, to open new fields of industry, to invent an implement that lessens toil, to add to the literature of a people, to preach righteousness by word or example, to inspire other lives to their best efforts, to mitigate the suffer- ing or increase the happiness of men, — to do any of these things is to serve. But this by no means ex- hausts the list: to earn one *s daily bread, to keep the home, to train up a child, to give a cup of cold water, to speak a kind word, to endure the reverses of for- tune with a brave heart, to receive graciously the ministration of others when you are powerless to min- x INTRODUCTION ister to //tew, — these, too, are forms of service that j weeten life and benefit the world.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
85 THE FACE OF AN EAGLE. II. 97 LOSING AND FINDING 109 INTRODUCTION W T HA7 'counts is the good life; there is no other worth living. But whatever is good is good for something beyond itself; goodness in the abstract, goodness iso- lated and unrelated, does not exist. Goodness implies a goal, an objetl, a something on which to expend its energy. The good life is the life that reaches out, that fulfils itself in ministration to other lives. The life that counts is the life that serves ; the life... that counts most is the life that serves most.
Service has many forms : to lead an army in free- dom's behalf, to help shape beneficent laws, to open new fields of industry, to invent an implement that lessens toil, to add to the literature of a people, to preach righteousness by word or example, to inspire other lives to their best efforts, to mitigate the suffer- ing or increase the happiness of men, — to do any of these things is to serve. But this by no means ex- hausts the list: to earn one *s daily bread, to keep the home, to train up a child, to give a cup of cold water, to speak a kind word, to endure the reverses of for- tune with a brave heart, to receive graciously the ministration of others when you are powerless to min- x INTRODUCTION ister to //tew, — these, too, are forms of service that j weeten life and benefit the world.
What to read after The Life That Counts?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Samuel Valentine Cole to read onlineMoreLess
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