The Weather and the Words in Passing

JUST as in the matter of conversation generally our rule was to talk to please others more than self, so in life's daily routine or casual encounters the special watchword is that, in pleasing the other, one say nothing which will hurt a third, an absent one. Talking is divinely intended to pull isolated human beings into the human family, to draw mankind together into a brotherhood. It was not intended to split it into cliques or into conspiracies. A friendship must not be aimed at keeping others out, but to help those in it groom themselves for a still wider circle of friends. A club must not be thought of as divisive, but as pulling likely persons together and fitting them for a still wider association or brotherhood. Each unit of social contact should prepare its members for a next larger, more comprehensive unit.