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安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导

Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. "To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom," says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17976
定位:Additional excerpt 527 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

卡内基认为,人类像一个有机体,天生会排斥有害的、也就是错的东西,经过尝试后吸收有益的、也就是对的东西。如果造物主愿意,本可以把世界和人造得完美无缺、没有邪恶和痛苦,像人们想象的天使那样;但既然没这么做,人得到的是前进的能力,而不是倒退的能力。《旧约》《新约》和其他地方的圣书一样,价值在于记录过去、教人向善。他引用孔子的话:把今生的责任尽好,不去操心来世,才是最大的智慧。来世的事,等到了那里再说。核心是:把注意力放在今生该做的事上。

上下文

卡内基自传中总结自己的进化论信仰,并引用孔子的话来支持关注今生。

今日一问

如果把精力从“担心来世”收回到“做好今天该做的事”,你会先做哪一件?

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