Henry said: “I think he worked for his own sake, and not for others.”
“Yes,” I answered; “but he loved and understood his fellows, so he could not help serving them in serving himself. It was his joy.”
I said if we had that standard of understanding love, we would need no other morality. I quoted from St. Augustine’s Confessions:
“Love God, and do as you please.”
“But,” I said, “most of us do not love God, or the great good, enough to be able to do as we please without thinking. We still have to stop to measure.”
As they were going home, I said: “Next week we will speak of immortality.”
“Really, this time?” asked Ruth.
“Now, after this meeting,” said Marian, “I am afraid you may tell us, what I have sometimes heard, that we are immortal in the race. Will you?”
“No,” I answered, “I will not.”