Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... IV. THE DUTY OF RIGHT FEELING TOWARD OTHERS. A great many persons recognize and emphasize the duty of a kindly considerateness of speech and manner toward others. A great many other persons recognize and emphasize the duty of frankness and sincerity of speech and manner toward others. Some give exceptional prominence to one of these duties, and some give exceptional prominence to the other. Some are so desirous of seeming kindly considerate of others that they are ready to speak or to act insincerely rather than to give pain even to those who are personally distasteful to them. Others, again, are so desirous of being absolutely sincere in all their action, that they will bear themselves toward all with a frankness of manner and speech which cannot but give discomfort and unhappiness to many. The one sort say: "I must give chief thought to the feelings of others. I cannot say that which will cause them pain." The other sort say: "I must be sincere. However it may affect myself or others, I must act out my convictions." Between these two extremes, which are held so positively by the one class and the other, many persons vacillate, or oscillate, in troubled perplexity. They want to be considerate, and they want to be sincere. They would fain have the best results of both phases of duty, without neglecting either. And, as a matter of fact, this is a possibility, if only they are influenced by right feeling toward others, --as they ought to be, and as they might be. If, indeed, one were always swayed by a feeling of considerate regard for another's welfare, and were never lacking in sympathy with him in his personal life and in his individual tastes and needs, it is obvious that he might at any time speak and act with absolute sincerity in his...
