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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SEKMON II. THE GOLDEN RULE. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.?Matt. 7:12. rjHE transition from barbarous to civilized life may be read by the progress made toward just and uniform and universal laws. If the quantity of gold were an evidence of civilization, the Spaniards of old Mexico equaled New England in the civilized condition. If raiment and elegant furniture and palaces were a proof of human progress, the Turks and the Chinese emperors have long been the equals of Washington and Lincoln. But it seems evident that, in the composition of the Mexican, and Turk, and Orientalist at large, there is some element wanting, preventing their condition from being a culture, a civilization. While it is impossible to find all the delicate threads that make up a great and complete human character, it seems evident that no one fact so truly indicates civilization as the presence and activity in a nation of general laws of right, and industry, and happiness ? wise, and tender, and uniform. The libraries of England, her myriad ships, her literature, would not complete for her a form of civilization, if she still held slaves, or still hung children for theft, or hung old women for witchcraft, that is, for dressing in black and growing weak in body and mind. And America was the reproach of the family of nations until she freed her slaves. The highest idea man can cherish being that of right, and the most divine conduct being obedience of the laws of right, there could be no high civilization with such an idea and such a conduct disregarded; and hence the honor of civilization never comes with man's furniture, and silks, and gold, and commerce, but with his broad, intelligent justice. It...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217412087
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217412084
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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