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General Assueance Advocate.
is happiness , must necessarily be a state of suffering ; but all men should take care , that while competition—the great engine which has led , and is leading , society upwards—has fair play that its attendant , though opposite principle , Combination—on whicli the very foundations of society rest , which forms the very basis of all government and association—for the good of humanity should not be neglected .
What California promises to the gold seeker , Life Assurance presents to those who labour—the realization of industrial efforts ; with this difference , however , that while speculation promises wealth to the seeker himself—in his own lifetime—for his own actual immediate enjoyment , and is therefore entwined with those selfish feelings which lie so thickly around the hearts of the best among us—Assurance holds out for each
man only a prospective advantage for himself , to be won by continuous moral controul , courage , and perseverance , and insures that those who we leave behind us shall not , after the departure of those on whose exertions they have been accustomed to depend , be left destitute in the world , with their sorrow for the dead aggravated by a feeling of their own hopeless and forlorn condition . The selfish instinct is so deeply
implanted in man , and more particularly in the man existing in the midst of an almost purely commercial community , that its promptings and cravings must be satisfied , at whatever prospective risk . No danger
will deter men from the pursuit of their own aggrandisement—they will set their " all upon a cast , " and " stand the hazard of the die ; " and , therefore , enterprise—rash , perchance , and it may be vain , will exist . But there is no need that while the selfish instinct is thus fully gratified , prudent forethought , and careful economy , should be lost sight of , and that those tenderer and better feelings of humanity which , amid all our
golden visions—all our dreams of power—come irrepressibly bubbling up from the deep well of natural truth and goodness , filling us with hopes and fears for the future , of those on whom our affections rest , should be entirely smothered and overlaid . To provide for their exercise , we have the principle of Combination ready to our hands , in the form in which it may be most beneficially applied—that of Life
Assurance . And thus the two extremes , Competition and Combination , may be linked hand in hand—Competition working for self , Combination for those who should be even dearer than self ; Competition shaping the present , Combination building the future ; Competition creating resources , Combination applying them in the most beneficial possible manner : both by opposite roadsdrawing onward to the same centre
, the prosperity and happiness of all mankind . The directors of the great Assurance movement which is going on , to bo true to themselves—to advance the great cause in which they are engaged—must be true to their principle of Combination ; they must not admit the commercial spirit of Competition within their spreading
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
General Assueance Advocate.
is happiness , must necessarily be a state of suffering ; but all men should take care , that while competition—the great engine which has led , and is leading , society upwards—has fair play that its attendant , though opposite principle , Combination—on whicli the very foundations of society rest , which forms the very basis of all government and association—for the good of humanity should not be neglected .
What California promises to the gold seeker , Life Assurance presents to those who labour—the realization of industrial efforts ; with this difference , however , that while speculation promises wealth to the seeker himself—in his own lifetime—for his own actual immediate enjoyment , and is therefore entwined with those selfish feelings which lie so thickly around the hearts of the best among us—Assurance holds out for each
man only a prospective advantage for himself , to be won by continuous moral controul , courage , and perseverance , and insures that those who we leave behind us shall not , after the departure of those on whose exertions they have been accustomed to depend , be left destitute in the world , with their sorrow for the dead aggravated by a feeling of their own hopeless and forlorn condition . The selfish instinct is so deeply
implanted in man , and more particularly in the man existing in the midst of an almost purely commercial community , that its promptings and cravings must be satisfied , at whatever prospective risk . No danger
will deter men from the pursuit of their own aggrandisement—they will set their " all upon a cast , " and " stand the hazard of the die ; " and , therefore , enterprise—rash , perchance , and it may be vain , will exist . But there is no need that while the selfish instinct is thus fully gratified , prudent forethought , and careful economy , should be lost sight of , and that those tenderer and better feelings of humanity which , amid all our
golden visions—all our dreams of power—come irrepressibly bubbling up from the deep well of natural truth and goodness , filling us with hopes and fears for the future , of those on whom our affections rest , should be entirely smothered and overlaid . To provide for their exercise , we have the principle of Combination ready to our hands , in the form in which it may be most beneficially applied—that of Life
Assurance . And thus the two extremes , Competition and Combination , may be linked hand in hand—Competition working for self , Combination for those who should be even dearer than self ; Competition shaping the present , Combination building the future ; Competition creating resources , Combination applying them in the most beneficial possible manner : both by opposite roadsdrawing onward to the same centre
, the prosperity and happiness of all mankind . The directors of the great Assurance movement which is going on , to bo true to themselves—to advance the great cause in which they are engaged—must be true to their principle of Combination ; they must not admit the commercial spirit of Competition within their spreading