There are three kinds of people in the world.

[soso]

There are three kinds of people in the world. 

The first class is of those //who live simply for their own sake and pleasure,

regarding Man and Nature /as so much raw material to be cut up into whatever shape may serve them. 

In the second class are those //who acknowledge /in some other claim upon them

– the will of God, the categorical imperative, or the good of society –

and honestly try to pursue their own interests /no further than this claim will allow. 

They try to surrender the higher claim /as much as it demands, like men /paying a tax,

but hope, like other taxpayers, that [what is left over] will be enough for them to live on. 

Their life is divided, like a soldier’s or a schoolboy’s life, into time ‘on parade’ and ‘off parade’, ‘in school’ and ‘out of school’. 

But the third class is of those //who can say /like St Paul [that for them ‘to live is Christ’]. 

These people have got rid of [the tiresome business /of adjusting the rival claims of Self and God /by the simple expedient

/of rejecting the claims of Self altogether]. 

[The old egoists will] has been turned round, reconditioned, and made /into a new thing. 

[The will of Christ] no longer limits theirs; it is theirs.

All their time, in belonging to Him, belongs also to them, for they are His.

From Present Concerns