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he must suffer ; he as a householder must try and do better. The world sympathises only with the strong and the powerful.
"A man must not say he is poor, or that he is wealthy--he must not brag of his wealth. Let him keep his own counsel; this is his religious duty." This is not mere world-wisdom; if a man does not do so, he may be held to be immoral.
The householder is the basis, the prop, of the whole society; he is the principal earner. Everybody—the poor, the weak, the children and the women who do not work—all live upon the householder ; so there must be certain duties that he has to perform, and these duties must make him feel strong to perform them, and not make him think that he is doing things beneath his ideal. Therefore, if he has done something weak, or has committed some mistake, he must not say so in public; and if he is engaged in some enterprise and knows he is sure to fail in it, he must not speak of it. Such self-exposure is not only uncalled for, but also unnerves the man and makes
