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sions force us to believe that the man who most 

 invariably gets on best is he who untiringly follows 

 out his own advantage, who has one end and aim 

 in life, which he pursues regardless of everything 

 else ; and that a course of life like this necessarily 

 implies selfishness and want of regard for the well- 

 being of others ? We see so many men around us of 

 the greatest capacity, unselfish and unblemished at 

 the same time, and yet they do not get on, but are 

 passed by men who, in most ways their inferiors, 

 possess instinctively the power to follow out in detail 

 that course which leads quickest to success. How 

 often do we not hear of the generosity of the poor, and 

 of the way in which they assist each other in need 

 and sickness ? Do we ever ask ourselves if it could 

 not more truly be said that the generous are the poor, 

 that generosity almost of necessity implies a tempera- 

 ment unsuited to the neck to neck struggle which 

 society is increasingly imposing upon those of her 

 citizens who aspire to be rich ? 



Therefore, although we may be thoroughly in 

 sympathy with the democratic changes just alluded 

 to, and may view these as necessarily preludes to a 

 better condition of things, we must not shut our eyes 

 to their dangers, and must not be deceived into look- 

 ing upon them as capable of achieving by themselves 

 very desirable or final results. 



