Ruling ideas of the present age by Gladden Washington 1836-1918

Author:Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Christian life, Social ethics
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Published: 1895-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

ers in the game of life, or as tools in the building of fortune. There are many to whom the problem of life is the exploitation of their neighbors. There are many to whom business and politics are simply a struggle for mastery, with woe to the vanquished. The brother man by their side is a stepping-stone for the ambitious to mount by; if they would rather not prostrate him in the process, it is mainly because while he is erect they can mount higher by standing on his shoulders. But the warfare of interest is relentless; the contestant counts all whom he employs or with whom he deals as lawful prey : his problem is to get from his fellow-men as much as he can, and to give them as little as he can ; what becomes of them is a question that he does not permit himself to consider. Do not understand that I am ascribing purposes like these to all the men in the active contests of life : that would be a gross slander. I am not willing to admit that the majority of the men with whom we come in contact are of

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