150 INTRODUCTION 



and also enlightened persons appears from this that they can do 

 as much for their happiness as if they had a thousand hands and 

 a thousand lives, indeed as if they were to live a thousand times 

 as long as they do. For our life is to be counted a true life in so 

 far as we do good in it. Now he who does much good in a shorter 

 time is the same as him who lives a thousand times longer; which 

 is the case with those who can get a thousand and more than a 

 thousand hands to work along with them, and consequently in 

 a few years more good can happen for their highest peace and 

 enjoyment than otherwise many centuries could bring to pass.' 





