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position. There is, however, one great danger in human nature, viz, that man never looks clearly at himself. He thinks he is quite as fit to be on the throne as the king. Even if he is, he must first show that he has fully discharged the duty of his own position ; and when he has done that, higher duties will come to him. Let a man show to the world that he is strong enough to do well the little task that has been assigned to him; and when he has done that, another and a higher task will come to him. When we begin to work earnestly in the world, nature gives us blows right and left and soon enables us to find out our due position. No man can long occupy satisfactorily a position for which he is not fit. There is no use itf grumbling against nature's adjustment. He who does the lower work is not therefore a lower man. ' No man should be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all are to be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.
Later on we shall find that even this idea of duty has to be changed, and that the greatest and
