Article October 11, 1924 Issue

What are high places as distinguished from low places?

Stone and Webster Journal

What are high places as distinguished from low places? High places are concerned with what is permanently beneficial to mankind, low places with what is fleeting and in the final analysis nonessential. Man does not "live by bread alone, but by every word. . . of God;" that is, by every eternal law established to promote his safety and happiness. This is, of course, an ideal statement. Man does not live by every eternal law, but the wise order their lives in accordance with such eternal laws as they are able to take cognizance of. Many of these laws the individual has to apply for himself. Some of them, however, concern him in his collective activities,—that is, in association with his fellows,—with the result that we have the thing we call government. When we talk about high places we usually mean government. But why does government intervene in the affairs of man? Because some necessary things cannot be done without agreement among men, and government exists to bring about the agreement and to make it effective in operation.

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