Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

THE GOLDEN RULE

When the mind is inflamed by passion, men will not

listen to reason. They become blind to their own interests

and regardless of the interests of others. Difficulties are never

settled while passion rages. They are never settled by con-

flict. One party may be subdued by power; but the sense of

wrong will remain; the fire of passion will slumber, ready to

break out again on the first occasion. But let the laborer or

the capitalist feel assured that the other party has no wish

to take any advantage, that there is a sincere desire and deter-

mination on both sides to be just and pay due regard to their

common interests, and all the conflict between them would

cease, as the wild waves of the ocean sink to calm when the

winds are at rest.

The laborer and the capitalist have a mutual and common

interest. Neither can permanently prosper without the pros-

perity of the other. They are parts of one body. If labor is

the arm, capital is the blood. Devitalize or waste the blood,

and the arm loses its power. Destroy the arm, and the blood

is useless. Let each care for the other, and both are benefited.

Let each take the Golden Rule as a gUide, and all cause of

hostility will be removed, all conflict will cease, and they will

go hand in hand to do their work and reap their just reward.

MY CODE OF ETHICS

995

It seems almost an act of Providence that the greatest wrong and
the most severe injustice ever done me by one of my fellow men was
done just as I began this lesson.
This injustice has worked a temporary hardship on me, but that
is of little consequence compared with the advantage it has given me
by providing a timely opportunity for me to test the soundness of the
entire premise of this lesson.