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Show When We Criticize. No one who habitually points out others' failures can bo a success himself. him-self. Thero la something about tho habit of criticism that prevents tho free, full expression of good in the life of tho critic. It has been said, for oxamplo, that "professional literary critics never turn out any good literature. litera-ture. Their habitual attltudo of criticism criti-cism dries up the sources of literary production." "Whether thlc sweeping statement Is truo In every caeo or not, it suggests a warning that most of us neod to think about. To bo habitually Interested In seeing and speaking about tho failures of others Is to dry up our own powers of good. And tho rovorso is equally truo; to be sensitively sensi-tively conscious of tho good that is in others, to discover It and talk about it freoly, is to bring good Into being in our own lives that might otherwise? never, como Into existence How much bettor it is to discover that which makes for life tban that which makes for death! Sunday School Times. |