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Yet what was the import of this teaching? What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised; and that a compensation is to be made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank stock and doubloons,[96] venison and champagne? This must be the compensation intended; for what else? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and praise? to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now. The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was: "We are to have _such_ a good time as the sinners have now"; or, to push it to its extreme import: "You sin now; we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful, we expect our revenue to-morrow."

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白话

爱默生质疑:传教士说好人今生受苦,那补偿是什么?难道是天上的房产、股票、香槟?这等于承认坏人在现世成功,好人只能等来世享受同样的物质。这种逻辑的极端推论是:我们现在没本事犯罪,所以指望将来能犯罪。真正的补偿不是物质,而是现在就能祈祷、赞美、爱和服务他人。所以不要用市场的成功标准衡量人生,好人不必羡慕坏人的物质享受,因为精神上的满足和德行本身就是回报。

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爱默生《随笔集》中讨论补偿法则,批评当时宗教用物质补偿来安慰受苦的好人。

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你是否也曾用物质成功来衡量自己或他人的价值?

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