Conduct of life; Courtesy; Generosity; Interpersonal relations; Kindness
Take a little thought, therefore, upon what style really is. In costume,
you’ll see that style is not what most people, but what the best people,
wear. If you wished to be strictly up to date, then, you’d go to the
leading shops for your clothes, wouldn’t you? You’d haunt the Opera, the
smartest assemblies, the most aristocratic homes, to see what
fashionable people selected. If you wanted to learn modern surgery you’d
visit the clinic of the most eminent surgeon, wouldn’t you, to observe
his technique?
THEN, if you desire to be really kind, elegantly kind, artistically
kind, why not seek the highest authorities on kindness, and emulate
their expert taste and method? Wherefore, let me recommend to you the
greatest examples of altruistic love, past masters of sympathetic
consideration, whose kindness is directed by an inspired imagination.
Two perfect exponents of the Educated Heart there are--only two, but I
am sure you have known them. The mother, who sees her child as truly a
part of herself; and the true lover whose imagination is fired with
romance. In those two is most perfectly manifest the love which passeth
understanding. Forever, unconsciously, they demonstrate the radiant
truth:
“The heart hath its reasons, which the reason knoweth not of.”
THE END
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