Friends and Neighbors

Friends and Neighbors

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Title: Friends and Neighbors, or Two Ways of Living in the World

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FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS;
OR, Two Ways of Living in the World.
EDITED BY T. S. ARTHUR.
PHILADELPHIA:

1856

PREFACE.

WE were about preparing a few words of introduction to this volume,
the materials for which have been culled from the highways and
byways of literature, where our eyes fell upon these fitting sentiments,
the authorship of which we are unable to give. They express clearly and
beautifully what was in our own mind:--
"If we would only bring ourselves to look at the subjects that surround
as in their true flight, we should see beauty where now appears
deformity, and listen to harmony where we hear nothing but discord.
To be sure there is a great deal of vexation and anxiety in the world; we
cannot sail upon a summer sea for ever; yet if we preserve a calm eye
and a steady hand, we can so trim our sails and manage our helm, as to
avoid the quicksands, and weather the storms that threaten shipwreck.
We are members of one great family; we are travelling the same road,
and shall arrive at the same goal. We breathe the same air, are subject
to the same bounty, and we shall, each lie down upon the bosom of our
common mother. It is not becoming, then, that brother should hate
brother; it is not proper that friend should deceive friend; it is not right
that neighbour should deceive neighbour. We pity that man who can
harbour enmity against his fellow; he loses half the enjoyment of life;
he embitters his own existence. Let us tear from our eyes the coloured
medium that invests every object with the green hue of jealousy and
suspicion; turn, a deal ear to scandal; breathe the spirit of charity from
our hearts; let the rich gushings of human kindness swell up as a
fountain, so that the golden age will become no fiction and islands of
the blessed bloom in more than Hyperian beauty."
It is thus that friends and neighbours should live. This is the right way.
To aid in the creation of such true harmony among men, has the book
now in your hand, reader, been compiled. May the truths that glisten on
its pages be clearly reflected in your mind; and the errors it points out
be shunned as the foes of yourself and humanity.

CONTENTS.

GOOD IN ALL HUMAN