Identifier: oursociety00ives (find matches)
Title: Our society
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Ives, Alice Emma Beecher, Henry Ward, Mrs., 1813-1897 Williams, Cora May. (from old catalog) Foley, John Samuel, Bishop, 1833- (from old catalog) Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, 1846-1918
Subjects: Etiquette Physical education and training
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Darling brothers & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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AN in society is like aflower blown in its na-tive bud. It is therealone his faculties,expanded in fullbloom, shine out; there only reach their proper use,says Cowper, the bashful man, thusexemplifying in himself the fact that those who most fullyrealize the benefits to be derived from society are often theones who most shrink from it.Man is naturally gregarious. If it had not been meant thathe should be so, he would not have been endowed with theorgans of speech and a vast wealth of expression. It is bycontact with humanity that we become more tender, moreunselfish, more sympathetic, more wise, and less egotistic. Granted, then, that it is a good thing to seek the society ofour fellow creatures, and that we ought to do so, if not frominclination, from a sense of duty to ourselves, the next ques-tion is, how shall we meet them? This query will soundabsolutely absurd to the easy, affable man, who has never, inthe whole course of his comfortable career, had to propoundto himself such a

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