Copyright, 1902,

BY J. N. LARNED

All rights reserved.

Published November, 1902.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

RIGHT AND WRONG

Meanings of the word "right"

The idea of straightness

The moral meaning

The word "wrong

A straight line

Why the "right line"

The line of rightness

The line of truth

The line of the Golden Rule

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CHAPTER II

THE NATURAL IMPULSE TO DO RIGHT AND OUR FREE-

DOM TO OBEY OR DISOBEY IT

The physical law of motion parallel to the moral

Our freedom under the law.

Our freedom gives our conduct its moral quality

Our freedom exalts us

The easy gift we can make to the bettering of the

Wholeness is health

The man of integrity

The "sense of honor" is self-respect

The honest man

Honesty to oneself

Examples and opinions

CHAPTER VII

RIGHT AND WRONG IN "BUSINESS"

All "business" supposed to be an arrangement

Naturally on the line of the Golden Rule

The Golden Rule in its commercial form

A beneficent system, not a barbaric scramble
The treason of all fraud

Betting and gambling in so-called "business"

Speculative trade is something very different

Examples and opinions

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CHAPTER VIII

RIGHT AND WRONG IN CITIZENSHIP

The governed in America are the governors

Responsibility to our fellow citizens

Political parties a means, not an end

The mischief of party feeling as a habit

The needed education of patriotism

The right inspiration of American patriotism

Its right objects

GENTLEMEN AND GENTLEWOMEN -THE IDEAL OF

CHARACTER AND CULTURE

The golden chart of character

Good manners as a growth on the substance of

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