Hamilton Wright Mabie
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages: 39
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Excerpt from Ethics and the Larger Neighborhood: Delivered Before the University of Pennsylvania, March Twelfth, 1914 Mr. Provost Ladies and Gentlemen: In the initial lecture in the Boardman Lectureship, happily delivered by the founder himself, the foundation on which all succeeding lectures must rest was laid broadly and securely in a definition and application of the Golden Rule. In that rule was gathered up the substance of the highest teaching of the Old Testament, and from it as from a commanding height the broader and more spiritual teaching of the New Testament must be understood. Dr. Boardman declared that Charles Reade's novel, "Put Yourself in His Place," is an echo of St. Paul's great phrase, "Let no one seek his own, but each his neighbor's good." "What our poor world needs is not division of spoils, but reciprocity of life; not compassion, but co-passion; not pity, but sympathy... About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.