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The Science of Being Great

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Any Person May Become Great - Heredity & Opportunity - The Source of Power - The Mind of God - Preparation - Social Point of View - Individual Point of View - Consecration - Identification - Idealization - Realization - Hurry & Habit - Thought - Action at Home - Action Abroad - Some Further Explanations - More About Thought - Jesus' Idea of Greatness - A View of Evolution - Serving God - A Mental Exercise - Summary of the Science of Being Great - About The Author - Contents -

has led many people to suppose that worship constitutes the service of God, although later God himself distinctly declared that he cared nothing for ceremonies, burned offerings, or oblation, and the teaching of Jesus, if rightly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether. God does not lack anything that men may do for him with their hands or bodies or voices. Saint Paul points out that man can do nothing for God, for God does not need anything.

The view of evolution which we have taken shows God seeking expression through man. Through all the successive ages in which his spirit has urged man up the height, God has gone on seeking expression. Every generation of men is more God-like than the preceding generation. Every generation of men demands more in the way of tine homes, pleasant surroundings, congenial work, rest, travel, and opportunity for study than the preceding generation.

I have heard some shortsighted economists argue that the working people of today ought surely to be fully contented because their condition is so much better than that of the working-man two hundred years ago who slept in a windowless but on a floor covered with rushes in company with his pip. If that

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