The Adventure of Life Being the William Belden Noble Lectures for 1911
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Education cannot give this new heart any more than political institutions can. The world needs religion more than ever it did, but a religion that concerns every feature and phase of life. To be perfectly effective, it must separately inspire every individual with the spirit of unselfish love. For society is only an aggregate of individ- uals. That was distinctly the teaching of the Master, and his method of achieving his end. It is as important in small matters as in large. Take the hundred an...d one other get-rich-quick methods, commercial shams and swindles. Reference to such trifles as the use of patent drugs and fraudulent 104 THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE cure-alls imposed upon a gullible public might, it seems, be almost out of place in a discussion of this kind. But I have seen how the sale of these is almost in inverse proportion to the intelligence of the vic- tims, which means so often in proportion to their ability to lose their money. If one of us loses a hundred dollars in a bucket- shop swindle, he can afford to laugh at the cleverness of the trick.
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