BY-PR0DUCT

In the conduct of life we select, or have assigned, certain measures ofactivity upon which we rely for our support and the self-respect thatfollows the doing of our part. This we call our business, and if we arewise we attend to it and prosecute it with due diligence andapplication. But it is not all of life, and its claim is not the onlycall that is made upon us. Exclusive interest and devotion to it may endin the sort of success that robs us of the highest value, so that,however much substance we accumulate, we are failures as men. 0n theother arm, we take risks if we slight its just demands and scatter ourpowers on miscellaneous interests. Whatever its value, every man, inaddition to what he primarily produces, turns out some by-product. If itis worth anything, he may be thankful and add the amount to totalincome.

The extracts of which this chapter is composed are selections from theeditorial columns of _The Pacific Unitarian_, submitted not as exhibitsin the case of achievement, but as indicating the convictions I haveformed on the way of life.

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