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| - | ====== The Inner Life 1933 ====== | + | ====== The Inner Life ====== |
| - | Editorial | + | == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | FEBRUARY 1933 == |
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| + | every one for the mere trouble of going and getting what is needed. | ||
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| + | How different from us, with whom instead of enjoying the blessings of overproduction we are entertaining the gaunt spectre of poverty; and the race, after thousands of years seeking the means and opportunity of leisure, has finally attained the goal, but at the cost of indulging in leisure but starving while doing so. And the only salvation we can see is that of destroying the abundance we have produced, or of wasting it in soul-destroying orgies. | ||
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| + | It is marvelous what a change has been wrought in the economic life of this island people by the few principles which they live up to—the law of respecting all life, the law of conserving forms or transmuting them into higher ones which serve Life, and the principle of always placing the other fellow’s needs and desires ahead of one’s own. | ||
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| + | It would seem as though here were a people who had grasped the economic soundness of the Beatitudes of the Master while learning that His law of Love is the highest and most practical of business principles. When we consider that before the fall of the Graeco-Roman civilization, | ||
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| + | On this little island is a people, who without business, without written laws, without organized religion, seem to have achieved a maximum of wealth and leisure, and to get along famously without a medium of exchange, | ||
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