CONCLUSION 327 



Act toward others as you would act 

 toward a part of your own self. 



Look upon and treat others as you do your own 

 hands, your own eyes, your very heart and soul 

 — with infinite care and compassion — as suffering 

 and enjoying members of the same Great Being 

 with yourself. This is the spirit of the ideal 

 universe — the spirit of your own being. It is 

 this alone that can redeem this world, and give 

 to it the peace and harmony for which it longs. 

 Yes, 



* So many gods, so many creeds, 



So many paths that wind and wind, 



While just the art of being kind 



Is all the sad world needs.' 



Oh the madness, and sorrow, and unbrotherli- 

 ness of this mal-wrought world ! Oh the poor, 

 weak, poisoned, monstrous natures of its children ! 

 Who can look upon it all without pain, and 

 sympathy, and consternation, and tears ? What 

 an opportunity for philanthropy, if the * All- 

 mighty One' of our traditions would only set 

 about it ! 



Yes, do as you would be done by — and not to the 

 dark man and the white woman alone, but to the 

 sorrel horse and the gray squirrel as well ; not to 

 creatures of your own anatomy only, but to all 

 creatures. You cannot go high enough nor low 

 enough nor far enough to find those whose bowed 

 and broken beings will not rise up at the coming 

 of the kindly heart, or whose souls will not shrink 

 and darken at the touch of inhumanity. Live and 



