Do your best in the world; give all you
can, but be sure to get a fair return, not in money but in better
things. Seek culture, seek knowledge, seek character, seek friendship,
good will, good health, good conscience, and the peace that passeth
understanding shall be added unto you. Be content with a small measure
of this world's wealth and do not crave costly luxuries to make a show
withal. To this end, go out into the country; raise what you need as far
as possible with your own hands, and enough more to exchange for such
things as you cannot produce. Abandon the world, the flesh and the Devil
and go back to the soil and find the Garden of Eden.
My father accepted these teachings in good faith and gave in his
testimony with those who in _The Dial_ and through other agencies
were propagating the new philosophy. His engagements with others were
such that he could not break away at the time to put these novel ideas
to the test of actual experiment but no doubt he thought it wise and
well to give his children an early initiation into the new life that was
to regenerate the world.
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