Traffic Goes Both Ways

IN a quiet evening of conversation, a wise old clergyman had said something that lingered with me as I left him. He had said that there was a lower level of adversity beneath which all men become brothers. But likewise, he had observed that there was a higher level of attainment in life above which men become brothers. Then he suggested that the shortage of brotherly love in the world was probably due to the fact that most men for most of their lives stayed within the perimeter of the big gray area between these two levels.