The World's Progress

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Excerpt from The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts From Master-Pieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature Life is based upon necessity, the necessity of making a liv ing, but that necessity breeds a need, the need Of living, the making of a living being indeed not the end of life, but the necessary means to the true end which is heightening to its fullest expression our capacity of living. Up to a certain point the word must is inevitably supreme, but beyond that point I will is possible. It is so even in business. A man must lay the foundations of the latter in the needs of his trade and build in response to its conditions, but having thus satisfied the meces sities of the case, he can exercise volition as to whether the business shall be run solely for his own sordid self-interest, or in a way that will better the circumstances Of his employees and raise the standard of living in his community. In a word, there is not a man or woman who has not his or her ideal, if you understand ideal in the sense which it is begin ning to receive, namely, the idea which a man sets ahead of him as the goal to which he works. In the case of some it may be a wholly sordid one, in which it is difficult to discover anything but an exclusive preoccupation with making a living and with solely material aggrandizement. In the vast majority of cases, how ever, the idea is one involving to a greater or less degree a heightened sense of the value of life in the opportunities it Offers of fuller and more effective living. And the moment a man begins to reach out to an ideal of this kind, he begins, even if for a while unconsciously, to recognize the value of art as a concrete expression of his belief in the beauty of life. It has always been so, it always will be so, for it is an instinct of man kind to seek an expression of its highest self in art. 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.