A MAN ‘IS MADE’. WHAT DO WE MEAN?



“What do we mean,” asked Henry Ward Beecher, “when we say that a man ‘is made’?
Is it that he has got the control of his lower instincts, so that they are only fuel to his higher feelings, giving force to his nature?
That his affections are like vines, sending out on all sides blossoms and clustering fruits?
That his tastes are so cultivated that all beautiful things speak to him, and bring him their delights?
That his understanding is opened, so that he walks through every hall of knowledge, and gathers its treasures?
That his moral feelings are so developed and quickened that he holds sweet commerce with Heaven?
Oh, no—none of these things.
He is cold and dead in heart, and mind, and soul. Only his passions are alive; but—he is worth five hundred thousand dollars!”

What do you think when you say a man "IS MADE"?

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