at best secondary; for a man sacrifices what he believes to be less to what he believes to be greater. Immediately a man realizes that righteousness is of more importance than the getting of food and clothing, he ceases to strive after the latter, and begins to live for the former. It is here where we come to the dividing line between the two Kingdoms: hell and Heaven.
Once a man perceives the beauty and enduring reality of righteousness, his whole attitude of mind toward himself and others and the things within and around him changes. The love of personal existence gradually loses hold on him; the instinct of self-preservation begins to fade, and the practice of self-renunciation takes its place. For the sacrifice of others or of the happiness of others to his own good, he substitutes the sacrifice of self and of his own happiness for the good of others. Thus rising above self, he rises above the competitive strife that is the outcome of self and above the competitive laws
