Part 1

How to Face Life

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THE ART OF LIFE SERIES Edward Howard Griggs, Editor

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How to Face Life

STEPHEN S. WISE Rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York

NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH MCMXVII

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COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY B. W. HUEBSCH

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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TO MY LOUTINJIM

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CONTENTS

I YOUTH

PREPARING FOR LIFE

PAGE 9

II MATURITY

HOW TO SERVE AND ACHIEVE

PAGE 48

III AGE

HOW NOT TO GROW OLD

PAGE 62

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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 for life, are questions that must be answered by those who believe, as Lecky put it, that the “map of life” must be marked out, that in the words of Emerson there is such a thing as the “conduct of life” which man is free to determine.