ing and that their first duty is to strive to obtain these, believing that these outward things are the source and cause of all comfort and happiness. It is the blind. animal instinct of self-preservation—the preservation of the body and personality—by virtue of which each man opposes himself to other men in order to get a living or secure a competency, believing that if he does not keep an incessant watch on other men and constantly renew the struggle, they will ultimately take the bread out of his mouth.
Out of this initial delusion comes all the train of delusions with their attendant sufferings that obtains in the world around us. Food and clothing are not the essential things of life; not the causes of happiness. They are non-essentials, effects, and, as such, proceed by a process of natural law from the essentials, the underlying cause. The essential things in life are the enduring elements in character: integrity, faith, righteousness, self-sacrifice, compassion, love; and out of these all good things
