How to Face Life
THE ART OF LIFE SERIES
Edward Howard Griggs, Editor
How to Face Life
BY
STEPHEN S. WISE
Rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York
NEW YORK
B. W. HUEBSCH
MCMXVII
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
B. W. HUEBSCH
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
MY LOUTINJIM
CONTENTS
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I
YOUTH: PREPARING FOR LIFE
“How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams.
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
Aladdin’s Lamp, and Fortunatus’ Purse!
That holds the treasures of the universe!
All possibilities are in its hands,
No danger daunts it and no foe withstands;
In its sublime audacity of faith,
‘Be thou removed,’ it to the mountain saith,
And with ambitious feet, secure and proud,
Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud.”
—Longfellow: Morituri Salutamus.
How to face life, how to prepare forlife, are questions that must be answeredby those who believe, as Lecky put it,10that the “map of life” must be markedout, that in the words of Emerson thereis such a thing as the “conduct of life”which man is free to determine.
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