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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 17.

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SELFISHNESS

By Bronson

Selfishness seems to be the concentration of all vices. The love of self, when predominant, excludes all goodness and perverts all truth. It is the great enemy of individuals, societies, and communities. It is the cause of all irritation, the source of all evil. People who are always thinking of themselves have no time to be concerned about others; their own pleasure or profit is the pivot on which everything turns. They cannot even conceive of disinterestedness, and will laugh to scorn all, who appear to love others as well as themselves. Selfishness is the very essence of the first original sin, and it must be corrected, or we are lost.—Bronson.