...the happiness of his fellow-men. Mark Twain left this admonition in furtherance of that better sort: "Diligently train your ideals upward, and still upward,...confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community." It is a divine admonition, even if, in its suggested moral freedom, it does seem to conflict with that...

...happiness of his fellow-men. Mark Twain left this admonition in furtherance of that better sort: »« "Diligently train your ideals upward, and still upward,...pleasure, in conduct which, while contenting you, will be 1 sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and the Vommunity." It is a divine admonition, even if,...

...self-interest is not at war with the interests of others. " Diligently train your ideals upward," he says, " and still upward toward a summit where you will find...confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community." When he put his shoulder under the debts of his bankrupt publishing house, he took a clear stand on...

...self-interest is not at war with the interests of others. " Diligently train your ideals upward," he says, " and still upward toward a summit where you will find...confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community." When he put his shoulder under the debts of his bankrupt publishing house, he took a clear stand on...

...selfishness and insincerity ; and his answer to " What is Happiness ? " is contained in the admonition, " Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward,...confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community." Not until the last years of his life did readers begin to take Mark Twain seriously; now they are coming...

...selfishness and insincerity ; and his answer to " What is Happiness ? " is contained in the admonition, " Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward, toward a summit where you will find your chiefesf. pleasure in conduct which, while contenting you, will be sure to confer benefits upon your...

...self-interest is not at war with the interests of others. " Diligently train your ideals upward," he says, " and still upward toward a summit where you will find...confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community." When he put his shoulder under the debts of his bankrupt publishing house, he took a clear stand on...

...life — his own — in the admonition: " Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward towards a summit where you will find your chiefest pleasure in conduct which, while eontenting you, will be sure to confer benefit! upon your neighbor and the community." It seems to...

...influences in training is explored, with the old man offering, with much ado, a plan for man's betterment. "Diligently train your ideals upward and still upward...confer benefits upon your neighbor and the community" (chap. 4). Yet there is no free will, and man has absolutely no reason to be proud. (The early versions...

...criticism."94 Here, for instance, is a telltale statement from the Old Man's gospel in What Is Man?: "your ideals upward and still upward toward a summit...be sure to confer benefits upon your neighbor and community." John Hays has read this and other sections as Twain's recognition of his own inability...