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Show SINGS PRAISES OF POVERTY 1 Writer Points Out Why in Many Ways It Should Be Preferred to t Affluence. Any man may brutally pay his way anywhere, but it Is quite another thing i- to be accepted by your human kind 1- not as a paid lodger, but as a friend Always, it seems to me, I have wanted ;1 to submit myself, and indeed submit r the E'.ranger, to that test. Moreover, how can any man look for true adventure adven-ture in life if he always knows to a certainty where his next meal is coming com-ing from? In a world so completely dominated by goods, by things, by possessions, pos-sessions, and smothered by security, what fine adventure is left to a man of spirit save the adventure of poverty? I do not mean by this the adventure adven-ture of involuntary poverty, for I maintain main-tain that Involuntary poverty, like in- j voluntary riches, is a credit to no man. It is only as we dominate life that we really live. What I mean here, if I may so express it, is an adventure adven-ture in achieved poVrty. In the lives of such true men as Francis of Assisi and Tolstoy that which draws the world to them Id secret sympathy is not that they lived lives of poverty, but rather, having riches at their hands, or for the very asking, that they chose poverty as the better way of life. David Grayson in the American Ameri-can Magazine. |