Here again practical psychology sustains me.

You cannot so much as raise your hand without an intention to promote your happiness--nor are you less selfish if you give your all to the needy--you are still equally doing that which promotes your happiness.
That it is more blessed to give than to receive is a terse statement of a law scientifically demonstrable.

You all know how far more exquisite is the pleasure that comes from giving than that which comes from receiving.

Is not one who prefers to give then simply selfish with a greater wisdom, a finer skill for the result desired--his own pleasure?
The man we call good is not less selfish than the man we call bad--only wiser in the ways that bring his happiness--riper in that divine sensitiveness to the feelings of his brother.

Selfish happiness is equally a law with all, though it send one of us to thieving and another to the cross.
"Ignorance of this primary truth has kept the world in spiritual darkness--it has nurtured belief in sin--in a devil, in a God that permits evil.