Excerpt: ...world? To make other people better and happier, for instance." "My dear boy," said my companion, with a smile, "do you know that you are talking in a very conventional way? Of course, I desire that people should be better and happier, myself among the number; but how am I to set about it? Most people's idea of being better and happier is to make other people subscribe to make them richer. They want more things to eat and drink and wear; they want success and respectability, to be sidesmen and town councillors, ...
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Excerpt: ...world? To make other people better and happier, for instance." "My dear boy," said my companion, with a smile, "do you know that you are talking in a very conventional way? Of course, I desire that people should be better and happier, myself among the number; but how am I to set about it? Most people's idea of being better and happier is to make other people subscribe to make them richer. They want more things to eat and drink and wear; they want success and respectability, to be sidesmen and town councillors, and even Members of Parliament. Nothing is more hopelessly unimaginative than ordinary people's aims and ideas, and the aims and ideas, too, that are propounded from pulpits. I don't want people to be richer and more prosperous; I want them to be poorer and simpler. Which is the better man, the shepherd there on the down, out all day in the air, seeing a thousand pretty things, or the grocer behind his counter, living in an odour of lard and cheese, bowing and fussing, and drinking spirits in the evening? Of course, a wholesome-minded man may be wholesome-minded everywhere and anywhere; but prosperity, which is the Englishman's idea of righteousness, is a very dangerous thing, and has very little of what is divine about it. If I had stuck to my work, as all my friends advised me, what would have been the result? I should have had more money than I want, and nothing in the world to live for but my work. Of course, I know that I run the risk of being thought indolent and unpractical. If I were a prophet, I should find it easy enough to scold everybody, and find fault with the poor, peaceful world. But as I am not, I can only follow my own line of life, and try to see and love as many as I can of the beautiful things that God flings down all round us. I am not a philanthropist, I suppose; but most of the philanthropists I have known have seemed to me tiresome, self-seeking people, with a taste for trying to take everything out of God's hands. I...
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Fair. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall; 3rd reprint of 4th Edition, missing front endpage and part of half title page Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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Used-Acceptable. Fair hardback in red cloth. 4th edition, reprinted 1916. In red cloth with gilt. Publisher's ads at rear. Gift inscription on front free end paper; hinges broken, exposing scrim on front hinge; some foxing; a little sidelining; spine browned & worn; minor stains on boards, with wear at corners.
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Good. 1925. Hardcover. Inscribed by previous owner. In original cloth without dustwrapper. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing to ffep with minor nicks and bumps on cover and sunning to spine but otherwise clean.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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