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peoples they see. Sailors, soldiers and traders behave in foreign lands in very queer ways, although they would not dream of doing any such thing in their own country; perhaps this is why the Chinese call Europeans and Americans "foreign devils."
Therefore the one point we ought to remember is that we should always try to see the duty of others through their own eyes, and never wish to judge the customs of other races or other peoples by our own standard. "I am not the standard of the universe." This is the great lesson to learn. "I have to accommodate my self to the world, and not the world to me." Therefore we see that environments change the nature of our duties, and doing in the best way that duty, which is ours at any particular time, is the best thing we can do in this world. Let us do that duty which is ours by birth; and when we have done that, let us do the duty which is ours by our position in life and in society. Each man is placed in some position or other in life, and must do the duties of that
