What does kipling actually mean he asks young people to use their left hand to acquire wealth what is the purpose of the right hand by rudyard kipling?
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Both praised and criticized as a "popular writer," Rudyard Kipling was a poet, novelist, short-story writer, and notorious imperialist. He is best known today for his novel Kim (1901) and his children's stories, collected in The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), and the Just So Stories (1902).
"Values in Life" appears in A Book of Words (1928), a volume of Kipling's collected speeches. The address was originally delivered in the fall of 1907 to the students at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. At the end of his talk Kipling says, "I have no message to deliver." Consider whether you agree with that observation.
Values in Life
by Rudyard Kipling
1 According to the ancient and laudable custom of the schools, I, as one of your wandering scholars returned, have been instructed to speak to you. The only penalty youth must pay for its enviable privileges is that of listening to people known, alas, to be older and alleged to be wiser. On such occasions youth feigns an air of polite interest and reverence, while age tries to look virtuous. Which pretences sit uneasily on both of them.
2 On such occasions very little truth is spoken. I will try not to depart from the convention. I will not tell you how the sins of youth are due very largely to its virtues; how its arrogance is very often the result of its innate shyness; how its brutality is the outcome of its natural virginity of spirit. These things are true, but your preceptors might object to such texts without the proper notes and emendations. But I can try to speak to you more or less truthfully on certain matters to which you may give the attention and belief proper to your years.
3 When, to use a detestable phrase, you go out into "the battle of life," you will be confronted by an organized conspiracy which will try to make you believe that the world is governed by the idea of wealth for wealth's sake, and that all means which lead to the acquisition of that wealth are, if not laudable, at least expedient. Those of you who have fitly imbibed the spirit of our university—and it was not a materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Craven and the Ireland in England—will violently resent that thought, but you will live and eat and move and have your being in a world dominated by that thought.
Some of you will probably succumb to the poison of it.
4 Now, I do not ask you not to be carried away by the first rush of the great game of life. That is expecting you to be more than human. But I do ask you, after the first heat of the game, that you draw breath and watch your fellows for a while. Sooner or later, you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price.
5 At first you will be inclined to laugh at this man, and to think that he is not "smart" in his ideas. I suggest that you watch him closely, for he will presently demonstrate to you that money dominates everybody except the man who does not want money. You may meet that man on your farm, in your village, or in your legislature. But be sure that, whenever or wherever you meet him, as soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his little finger will be thicker than your loins. You will go in fear of him; he will not go in fear of you.
You will do what he wants; he will not do what you want. You will find that you have no weapon in your armory with which you can attack him, no argument with which you can appeal to him. Whatever you gain, he will gain more.
6 I would like you to study that man. I would like you better to be that man, because from the lower point of view it doesn't pay to be obsessed by the desire of wealth for wealth's sake. If more wealth is necessary to you, for purposes not your own, use your left hand to acquire it, but keep your right for your proper work in life. If you employ both arms in that game, you will be in danger of stooping, in danger also of losing your soul. But in spite of everything you may succeed, you may be successful, you may acquire enormous wealth.
In which case I warn you that you stand in grave danger of being spoken and written of and pointed out as "a smart man." And that is one of the most terrible calamities that can overtake a sane, civilized white man in our Empire today.
7 They say youth is the season of hope, ambition, and uplift—that the last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know—and I remember—that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man sometimes descends—a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk.
The purpose of right hand by Rudyard Kipling, use right hand for your proper work in life.
Explanation:
Rudyard kipling said that:
- "I would like you better to be that man, because from the lower point of view it doesn't pay to be obsessed by the desire of wealth for wealth's sake."
- "If more wealth is necessary for you, for purposes not your own, use your left hand to acquire it, but keep your right for your proper work in life."
- "If you employ both arms in that game you will be in danger of stooping; in danger of losing your soul."
- "But in spite of every thing you may succeed, you may be successful, you may acquire enormous wealth."
- "In which case I warn you that you stand in grave danger of being spoken and written of and pointed out as a smart man."
- "And that is one of the most terrible calamities that can overtake a sane, civilized white man in our empire today. "
The above are the exact words said by Kipling for money investment.
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