An Address, Delivered Before the Literary Society of Granville College, Ohio: At the Annual Commencement, July 17, 1844 (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Literary So...)
Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Literary Society of Granville College, Ohio: At the Annual Commencement, July 17, 1844
Whoever has but slightly analyzed the principles by which the various pursuits that occupy the life of man, connect themselves with his mind and heart, has often, we doubt not, been inclined to distrust the process he has employed, so great is his astonishment at the result of his investigation. The test to which he has submitted his own opinions, has discovered the secret power that controls and directs them, while it developes all the combinations of motive which impel the mass who mingle with him in the same common enterprize.
That principle is individual elevation - that motive, stripped of its apparent purity, is merely selfish, seeking for him who indulges it personal advantage and personal ease, without reference to its influence on the character or happiness of others. It is a dark page in the history of our race, which contains this record, but it is written, and has been for more than fifty centuries; and he is not just to himself or the world, who has not read it often, with humility and sorrow.
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