The Light of Reason

Edited by James Allen

"Place self first, and your whole
will prove a dismall. Place
others first in your thoughts, words,
and deeds, and your life will prove the
very essence of success."
Hugo Wright

March 1904
Published Monthly
Vol. V. No. 3

Devoted to:
The Expounding of the Laws of Being and the Higher Life

Published monthly by:
The Savoy Publishing Company
Savoy Steps, Strand, London

"The Higher Life" Library	Editor
Editorial	Editor
Peace	Sir Edwin Arnold
The Battle of Life	W. H. Gill
The Charitable Way (Poem)	John Byrom
Virtue	James Allen
Though a person be ornamented with jewels, the heart may have conquered the senses. The outward form does not constitute religion or affect the mind…	Buddha
He is Wise Who Knows Others	Lao-Tze
Righteousness can be practiced only when we have freed our mind from the passions of egotism. Perfect peace can dwell only where all vanity has disappeared	Buddha
Real Glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves	Joseph Thompson
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment	Jesus
Charity (Poem)	Gertrude M. Campbell
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.	Addison
Why Do Some Succeed While Others Fail?	Hugo Wright
Precious Seeds (Poem)	Christie Campbell
Love, The Great Reformer	The Essene
Cultivate the habit of always seeing the best in people, and, more than that, of drawing forth whatever is the in them	Theodore Cuyler
Love is like its Master –omnipresent. There is no house so small that it hath not room for love; there is no castle so wide that it cannot be filled with it	George Dawson
Sacrifice	W. H. Evans
Wouldst Thou Lead a Happy Life?	Friedrich Schiller
Letters of a Truth-Seeker: II. The Finding of Our Relationship	Harry J. Stone
Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle, but it must be sought before it can be won; it is the product of great labor and therefore great sacrifice	Buckle
The Nature of Retribution	L.C.
He who plants in Virtue never uproots	Lao-Tze
Since it is impossible to escape the result of our deeds, let us practice good works	Buddha
Soul-Building
IIt is the soul that creates to itself a body, the idea which makes to itself a habitation	Mazzini
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge –broad, deep knowledge –is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.	Helen Keller
The Fairer One (Poem)	E. Dyke
These are they which came out of great tribulation	The Revelation
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor	Sir Joshua Reynolds
Wisdom is meek sorrow’s patient child	James Russell Lowell
The Joy of Living	Rose L. Amos
A Song of Hope	Mary A. Lathbury
Our Talk With Correspondents	Editor
The “Light of Reason” Gatherings	Editor
Our London Meeting	Editor
Reviews of Books	Editor
Reviews of Magazines	Editor

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