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He comes to himself after experiences of which he alone may be +aware: when he has left off being wholly preoccupied with his own powers and +interests and with every petty plan that centers in himself; when he has +cleared his eyes to see the world as it is, and his own true place and function +in it. +</p> + +<p> +It is a process of disillusionment. The scales have fallen away. He sees +himself soberly, and knows under what conditions his powers must act, as well +as what his powers are. He has got rid of earlier prepossessions about the +world of men and affairs, both those which were too favorable and those which +were too unfavorable—both those of the nursery and those of a young +man’s reading. He has learned his own paces, or, at any rate, is in a +fair way to learn them; has found his footing and the true nature of the +“going” he must look for in the world; over what sorts of roads he +must expect to make his running, and at what expenditure of effort; whither his +goal lies, and what cheer he may expect by the way. It is a process of +disillusionment, but it disheartens no soundly made man. It brings him into a +light which guides instead of deceiving him; a light which does not make the +way look cold to any man whose eyes are fit for use in the open, but which +shines wholesomely, rather upon the obvious path, like the honest rays of the +frank sun, and makes traveling both safe and cheerful. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div class="chapter"> + +<h2><a name="chap02"></a>II</h2> + +<p> +There is no fixed time in a man’s life at which he comes to himself, and +some men never come to themselves at all. It is a change reserved for the +thoroughly sane and healthy, and for those who can detach themselves from tasks +and drudgery long and often enough to get, at any rate once and again, a view +of the proportions of life and of the stage and plot of its action. We speak +often with amusement, sometimes with distaste and uneasiness, of men who +“have no sense of humor,” who take themselves too seriously, who +are intense, self-absorbed, over-confident in matters of opinion, or else go +plumed with conceit, proud of we cannot tell what, enjoying, appreciating, +thinking of nothing so much as themselves. These are men who have not suffered +that wholesome change. They have not come to themselves. If they be serious +men, and real forces in the world, we may conclude that they have been too much +and too long absorbed; that their tasks and responsibilities long ago rose +about them like a flood, and have kept them swimming with sturdy stroke the +years through, their eyes level with the troubled surface—no horizon in +sight, no passing fleets, no comrades but those who struggled in the flood like +themselves. If they be frivolous, light-headed men without purpose or +achievement, we may conjecture, if we do not know, that they were born so, or +spoiled by fortune, or befuddled by self-indulgence. It is no great matter what +we think of them. +</p> + +<p> +It is enough to know that there are some laws which govern a man’s +awakening to know himself and the right part to play. A man <i>is</i> the part +he plays among his fellows. He is not isolated; he cannot be. His life is made +up of the relations he bears to others—is made or marred by those +relations, guided by them, judged by them, expressed in them. There is nothing +else upon which he can spend his spirit—nothing else that we can see. It +is by these he gets his spiritual growth; it is by these we see his character +revealed, his purpose and his gifts. Some play with a certain natural passion, +an unstudied directness, without grace, without modulation, with no study of +the masters or consciousness of the pervading spirit of the plot; others give +all their thought to their costume and think only of the audience; a few act as +those who have mastered the secrets of a serious art, with deliberate +subordination of themselves to the great end and motive of the play, spending +themselves like good servants, indulging no wilfulness, obtruding no +eccentricity, lending heart and tone and gesture to the perfect progress of the +action. These have “found themselves,” and have all the ease of a +perfect adjustment. +</p> + +<p> +Adjustment is exactly what a man gains when he comes to himself. Some men gain +it late, some early; some get it all at once, as if by one distinct act of +deliberate accommodation; others get it by degrees and quite imperceptibly. No +doubt to most men it comes by slow processes of experience—at each stage +of life a little. A college man feels the first shock of it at graduation, when +the boy’s life has been lived out and the man’s life suddenly +begins. He has measured himself with boys; he knows their code and feels the +spur of their ideals of achievement. But what the world expects of him he has +yet to find out, and it works, when he has discovered, a veritable revolution +in his ways both of thought and of action. He finds a new sort of fitness +demanded of him, executive, thorough-going, careful of details, full of +drudgery and obedience to orders. Everybody is ahead of him. Just now he was a +senior, at the top of the world he knows and reigned in, a finished product and +pattern of good form. Of a sudden he is a novice again, as green as in his +first school year, studying a thing that seems to have no rules—at sea +amid crosswinds, and a bit seasick withal. Presently, if he be made of stuff +that will shake into shape and fitness, he settles to his tasks and is +comfortable. He has come to himself: understands what capacity is, and what it +is meant for; sees that his training was not for ornament or personal +gratification, but to teach him how to use himself and develop faculties worth +using. Henceforth there is a zest in action, and he loves to see his strokes +tell. +</p> + +<p> +The same thing happens to the lad come from the farm into the city, a big and +novel field, where crowds rush and jostle, and a rustic boy must stand puzzled +for a little how to use his placid and unjaded strength. It happens, too, +though in a deeper and more subtle way, to the man who marries for love, if the +love be true and fit for foul weather. Mr. Bagehot used to say that a bachelor +was “an amateur at life,” and wit and wisdom are married in the +jest. A man who lives only for himself has not begun to live—has yet to +learn his use, and his real pleasure, too, in the world. It is not necessary he +should marry to find himself out, but it is necessary he should love. Men have +come to themselves serving their mothers with an unselfish devotion, or their +sisters, or a cause for whose sake they forsook ease and left off thinking of +themselves. It is unselfish action, growing slowly into the high habit of +devotion, and at last, it may be, into a sort of consecration, that teaches a +man the wide meaning of his life, and makes of him a steady professional in +living, if the motive be not necessity, but love. Necessity may make a mere +drudge of a man, and no mere drudge ever made a professional of himself; that +demands a higher spirit and a finer incentive than his. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div class="chapter"> + +<h2><a name="chap03"></a>III</h2> + +<p> +Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in +him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for. It +is only then that he knows of what he is capable and what his heart demands. +And, assuredly, no thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had +time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not +know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, +and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that +he had played the man. That alone seems to him the real measure of himself, the +real standard of his manhood. And so men grow by having responsibility laid +upon them, the burden of other people’s business. Their powers are put +out at interest, and they get usury in kind. They are like men multiplied. Each +counts manifold. Men who live with an eye only upon what is their own are +dwarfed beside them—seem fractions while they are integers. The +trustworthiness of men trusted seems often to grow with the trust. +</p> + +<p> +It is for this reason that men are in love with power and greatness: it affords +them so pleasurable an expansion of faculty, so large a run for their minds, an +exercise of spirit so various and refreshing; they have the freedom of so wide +a tract of the world of affairs. But if they use power only for their own ends, +if there be no unselfish service in it, if its object be only their personal +aggrandizement, their love to see other men tools in their hands, they go out +of the world small, disquieted, beggared, no enlargement of soul vouchsafed +them, no usury of satisfaction. They have added nothing to themselves. Mental +and physical powers alike grow by use, as every one knows; but labor for +oneself is like exercise in a gymnasium. No healthy man can remain satisfied +with it, or regard it as anything but a preparation for tasks in the open, amid +the affairs of the world—not sport, but business—where there is no +orderly apparatus, and every man must devise the means by which he is to make +the most of himself. To make the most of himself means the multiplication of +his activities, and he must turn away from himself for that. He looks about +him, studies the facts of business or of affairs, catches some intimation of +their larger objects, is guided by the intimation, and presently finds himself +part of the motive force of communities or of nations. It makes no difference +how small a part, how insignificant, how unnoticed. When his powers begin to +play outward, and he loves the task at hand, not because it gains him a +livelihood, but because it makes him a life, he has come to himself. +</p> + +<p> +Necessity is no mother to enthusiasm. Necessity carries a whip. Its method is +compulsion, not love. It has no thought to make itself attractive; it is +content to drive. Enthusiasm comes with the revelation of true and satisfying +objects of devotion; and it is enthusiasm that sets the powers free. It is a +sort of enlightenment. It shines straight upon ideals, and for those who see it +the race and struggle are henceforth toward these. An instance will point the +meaning. One of the most distinguished and most justly honored of our great +philanthropists spent the major part of his life absolutely absorbed in the +making of money—so it seemed to those who did not know him. In fact, he +had very early passed the stage at which he looked upon his business as a means +of support or of material comfort. Business had become for him an intellectual +pursuit, a study in enterprise and increment. The field of commerce lay before +him like a chess-board; the moves interested him like the manoeuvers of a game. +More money was more power, a great advantage in the game, the means of shaping +men and events and markets to his own ends and uses. It was his will that set +fleets afloat and determined the havens they were bound for; it was his +foresight that brought goods to market at the right time; it was his suggestion +that made the industry of unthinking men efficacious; his sagacity saw itself +justified at home not only, but at the ends of the earth. And as the money +poured in, his government and mastery increased, and his mind was the more +satisfied. It is so that men make little kingdoms for themselves, and an +international power undarkened by diplomacy, undirected by parliaments. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div class="chapter"> + +<h2><a name="chap04"></a>IV</h2> + +<p> +It is a mistake to suppose that the great captains of industry, the great +organizers and directors of manufacture and commerce and monetary exchange, are +engrossed in a vulgar pursuit of wealth. Too often they suffer the vulgarity of +wealth to display itself in the idleness and ostentation of their wives and +children, who “devote themselves,” it may be, “to expense +regardless of pleasure”; but we ought not to misunderstand even that, or +condemn it unjustly. The masters of industry are often too busy with their own +sober and momentous calling to have time or spare thought enough to govern +their own households. A king may be too faithful a statesman to be a watchful +father. These men are not fascinated by the glitter of gold: the appetite for +power has got hold upon them. They are in love with the exercise of their +faculties upon a great scale; they are organizing and overseeing a great part +of the life of the world. No wonder they are captivated. Business is more +interesting than pleasure, as Mr. Bagehot said, and when once the mind has +caught its zest, there’s no disengaging it. The world has reason to be +grateful for the fact. +</p> + +<p> +It was this fascination that had got hold upon the faculties of the man whom +the world was afterward to know, not as a prince among merchants—for the +world forgets merchant princes—but as a prince among benefactors; for +beneficence breeds gratitude, gratitude admiration, admiration fame, and the +world remembers its benefactors. Business, and business alone, interested him, +or seemed to him worthwhile. The first time he was asked to subscribe money for +a benevolent object he declined. Why <i>should</i> he subscribe? What affair +would be set forward, what increase of efficiency would the money buy, what +return would it bring in? Was good money to be simply given away, like water +poured on a barren soil, to be sucked up and yield nothing? It was not until +men who understood benevolence on its sensible, systematic, practical, and +really helpful side explained it to him as an investment that his mind took +hold of it and turned to it for satisfaction. He began to see that education +was a thing of infinite usury; that money devoted to it would yield a singular +increase to which there was no calculable end, an increase in +perpetuity—increase of knowledge, and therefore of intelligence and +efficiency, touching generation after generation with new impulses, adding to +the sum total of the world’s fitness for affairs—an invisible but +intensely real spiritual usury beyond reckoning, because compounded in an +unknown ratio from age to age. Henceforward beneficence was as interesting to +him as business—was, indeed, a sort of sublimated business in which money +moved new forces in a commerce which no man could bind or limit. +</p> + +<p> +He had come to himself—to the full realization of his powers, the true +and clear perception of what it was his mind demanded for its satisfaction. His +faculties were consciously stretched to their right measure, were at last +exercised at their best. He felt the keen zest, not of success merely, but also +of honor, and was raised to a sort of majesty among his fellow-men, who +attended him in death like a dead sovereign. He had died dwarfed had he not +broken the bonds of mere money-getting; would never have known himself had he +not learned how to spend it; and ambition itself could not have shown him a +straighter road to fame. +</p> + +<p> +This is the positive side of a man’s discovery of the way in which his +faculties are to be made to fit into the world’s affairs, and released +for effort in a way that will bring real satisfaction. There is a negative side +also. Men come to themselves by discovering their limitations no less than by +discovering their deeper endowments and the mastery that will make them happy. +It is the discovery of what they can <i>not</i> do, and ought not to attempt, +that transforms reformers into statesmen; and great should be the joy of the +world over every reformer who comes to himself. The spectacle is not rare; the +method is not hidden. The practicability of every reform is determined +absolutely and always by “the circumstances of the case,” and only +those who put themselves into the midst of affairs, either by action or by +observation, can know what those circumstances are or perceive what they +signify. No statesman dreams of doing whatever he pleases; he knows that it +does not follow that because a point of morals or of policy is obvious to him +it will be obvious to the nation, or even to his own friends; and it is the +strength of a democratic polity that there are so many minds to be consulted +and brought to agreement, and that nothing can be wisely done for which the +thought, and a good deal more than the thought, of the country, its sentiment +and its purpose, have not been prepared. Social reform is a matter of +cooperation, and if it be of a novel kind, requires an infinite deal of +converting to bring the efficient majority to believe in it and support it. +Without their agreement and support it is impossible. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div class="chapter"> + +<h2><a name="chap05"></a>V</h2> + +<p> +It is this that the more imaginative and impatient reformers find out when they +come to themselves, if that calming change ever comes to them. Oftentimes the +most immediate and drastic means of bringing them to themselves is to elect +them to legislative or executive office. That will reduce over-sanguine persons +to their simplest terms. Not because they find their fellow-legislators or +officials incapable of high purpose or indifferent to the betterment of the +communities which they represent. Only cynics hold that to be the chief reason +why we approach the millennium so slowly, and cynics are usually very +ill-informed persons. Nor is it because under our modern democratic +arrangements we so subdivide power and balance parts in government that no one +man can tell for much or turn affairs to his will. One of the most instructive +studies a politician could undertake would be a study of the infinite +limitations laid upon the power of the Russian Czar, notwithstanding the +despotic theory of the Russian constitution—limitations of social habit, +of official prejudice, of race jealousies, of religious predilections, of +administrative machinery even, and the inconvenience of being himself only one +man, caught amidst a rush of duties and responsibilities which never halt or +pause. He can do only what can be done with the Russian people. He cannot +change them at will. He is himself of their own stuff, and immersed in the life +which forms them, as it forms him. He is simply the leader of the Russians. +</p> + +<p> +An English or American statesman is better off. He leads a thinking nation, not +a race of peasants topped by a class of revolutionists and a caste of nobles +and officials. He can explain new things to men able to understand, persuade +men willing and accustomed to make independent and intelligent choices of their +own. An English statesman has an even better opportunity to lead than an +American statesman, because in England executive power and legislative +initiative are both intrusted to the same grand committee, the ministry of the +day. The ministers both propose what shall be law and determine how it shall be +enforced when enacted. And yet English reformers, like American, have found +office a veritable cold-water bath for their ardor for change. Many a man who +has made his place in affairs as the spokesman of those who see abuses and +demand their reformation has passed from denunciation to calm and moderate +advice when he got into Parliament, and has turned veritable conservative when +made a minister of the crown. Mr. Bright was a notable example. Slow and +careful men had looked upon him as little better than a revolutionist so long +as his voice rang free and imperious from the platforms of public meetings. +They greatly feared the influence he should exercise in Parliament, and would +have deemed the constitution itself unsafe could they have foreseen that he +would some day be invited to take office and a hand of direction in affairs. +But it turned out that there was nothing to fear. Mr. Bright lived to see +almost every reform he had urged accepted and embodied in legislation; but he +assisted at the process of their realization with greater and greater +temperateness and wise deliberation as his part in affairs became more and more +prominent and responsible, and was at the last as little like an agitator as +any man that served the queen. +</p> + +<p> +It is not that such men lose courage when they find themselves charged with the +actual direction of the affairs concerning which they have held and uttered +such strong, unhesitating, drastic opinions. They have only learned discretion. +For the first time they see in its entirety what it was that they were +attempting. They are at last at close quarters with the world. Men of every +interest and variety crowd about them; new impressions throng them; in the +midst of affairs the former special objects of their zeal fall into new +environments, a better and truer perspective; seem no longer so susceptible to +separate and radical change. The real nature of the complex stuff of life they +were seeking to work in is revealed to them—its intricate and delicate +fiber, and the subtle, secret interrelationship of its parts—and they +work circumspectly, lest they should mar more than they mend. Moral enthusiasm +is not, uninstructed and of itself, a suitable guide to practicable and lasting +reformation; and if the reform sought be the reformation of others as well as +of himself, the reformer should look to it that he knows the true relation of +his will to the wills of those he would change and guide. When he has +discovered that relation, he has come to himself: has discovered his real use +and planning part in the general world of men; has come to the full command and +satisfying employment of his faculties. Otherwise he is doomed to live for ever +in a fool’s paradise, and can be said to have come to himself only on the +supposition that he is a fool. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div class="chapter"> + +<h2><a name="chap06"></a>VI</h2> + +<p> +Every man—if I may adopt and paraphrase a passage from Dr. +South—every man hath both an absolute and a relative capacity: an +absolute in that he hath been endued with such a nature and such parts and +faculties; and a relative in that he is part of the universal community of men, +and so stands in such a relation to the whole. When we say that a man has come +to himself, it is not of his absolute capacity that we are thinking, but of his +relative. He has begun to realize that he is part of a whole, and to know +<i>what</i> part, suitable for what service and achievement. +</p> + +<p> +It was once fashionable—and that not a very long time ago—to speak +of political society with a certain distaste, as a necessary evil, an +irritating but inevitable restriction upon the “natural” +sovereignty and entire self-government of the individual. That was the dream of +the egotist. It was a theory in which men were seen to strut in the proud +consciousness of their several and “absolute” capacities. It would +be as instructive as it would be difficult to count the errors it has bred in +political thinking. As a matter of fact, men have never dreamed of wishing to +do without the “trammels” of organized society, for the very good +reason that those trammels are in reality but no trammels at all, but +indispensable aids and spurs to the attainment of the highest and most +enjoyable things man is capable of. Political society, the life of men in +states, is an abiding natural relationship. It is neither a mere convenience +nor a mere necessity. It is not a mere voluntary association, not a mere +corporation. It is nothing deliberate or artificial, devised for a special +purpose. It is in real truth the eternal and natural expression and embodiment +of a form of life higher than that of the individual—that common life of +mutual helpfulness, stimulation, and contest which gives leave and opportunity +to the individual life, makes it possible, makes it full and complete. +</p> + +<p> +It is in such a scene that man looks about to discover his own place and force. +In the midst of men organized, infinitely cross-related, bound by ties of +interest, hope, affection, subject to authorities, to opinion, to passion, to +visions and desires which no man can reckon, he casts eagerly about to find +where he may enter in with the rest and be a man among his fellows. In making +his place he finds, if he seek intelligently and with eyes that see, more than +ease of spirit and scope for his mind. He finds himself—as if mists had +cleared away about him and he knew at last his neighborhood among men and +tasks. +</p> + +<p> +What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he +imagines it to lie in self-indulgence, so long as he deems himself the center +and object of effort. His mind is spent in vain upon itself. Not in action +itself, not in “pleasure,” shall it find its desires satisfied, but +in consciousness of right, of powers greatly and nobly spent. It comes to know +itself in the motives which satisfy it, in the zest and power of rectitude. +Christianity has liberated the world, not as a system of ethics, not as a +philosophy of altruism, but by its revelation of the power of pure and +unselfish love. Its vital principle is not its code, but its motive. Love, +clear-sighted, loyal, personal, is its breath and immortality. Christ came, not +to save Himself, assuredly, but to save the world. His motive, His example, are +every man’s key to his own gifts and happiness. The ethical code he +taught may no doubt be matched, here a piece and there a piece, out of other +religions, other teachings and philosophies. Every thoughtful man born with a +conscience must know a code of right and of pity to which he ought to conform; +but without the motive of Christianity, without love, he may be the purest +altruist and yet be as sad and as unsatisfied as Marcus Aurelius. +</p> + +<p> +Christianity gave us, in the fullness of time, the perfect image of right +living, the secret of social and of individual well-being; for the two are not +separable, and the man who receives and verifies that secret in his own living +has discovered not only the best and only way to serve the world, but also the +one happy way to satisfy himself. 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