THE SERVING VERSUS THE MONARCHIC VIRTUES

The Serving Virtues are humility, loyalty, selfcontrol and unselfishness. The Kings of earth, whether ancient or modern, whether European hereditary aristocracy or American selfmade plutocracy, are noticeable for their lack of these quailties. Such virtues are absolutely
inconsistent with the desire to dominate. The only governor who could have them would be the one who accepts rule merely because it is the best way he can serve.
The monarch virtues are pride, egoism, love of power and desire for prominence. These are essentially mean. They beget cruelty. They are what is the matter with our civilization. They cause a man to build a palace on Fifth Avenue as the moral apex of a pile of human suffeAng whose base is the sweat-shop and the gas-choked mine swarming with his stunted brothers.
On the contrary, you never meet a really great man, a truly majestic soul, full of the cosmic power of justice and altruism, who is not humble, who is not more considerate of human values than of money values. You never knew a beautiful soul that was not self-forgetful. These are not King-virtues.
They are blacksmith, school-teacher, housebuilder, poet and shoemaker virtues. They are the kind Jesus had, who was a Carpenter. They are the real virtues of God, who is Servant of All.
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