The Chief End of Man

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Title: The Chief End of Man
Author: George S. Merriam
Release Date: August 22, 2007 [EBook #22371]
Language: English
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THE CHIEF END OF MAN
BY
GEORGE S. MERRIAMBOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1897
Copyright, 1897,
BY GEORGE S. MERRIAM.
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The chief end of man,—to define it anew, and cite the witness of the ages, may seem an audacious attempt, likely to
issue in failure or in commonplace. By the scholar this work must often be judged as crude, to the churchman it will
sometimes seem mischievous, and to the man of science it may appear to lack solidity of demonstration. But its
essential purpose is to utter afresh, though it be with stammering tongue, the message with which the universe has
answered the soul of man whenever he listened most closely and obeyed most faithfully.
It is the assurance that Fidelity, Truth-seeking, Courage, and Love are the rightful lords of human life, and its sufficient
guides and interpreters. It is the knowledge that as man is true to his best self he finds the universe his ...