act /as if you did.
The rule for all of us is perfectly simple.
Do not waste time /bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour;
act /as if you did.
As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets.
When you are behaving /as if you loved someone,
you will presently come /to love him.
If you injure someone () you dislike, you will find [yourself] [disliking him more].
* If someone comes to do something, they do it at the end of a long process or period of time.
If you do him a good turn, you will find [yourself] [disliking him less].
There is, indeed, one exception.
* DO (SOMEONE) A GOOD TURN : 1. to do something kind that helps someone else:
If you do him a good turn,
not to please God and obey the law of charity,
but to show him what a fine forgiving chap you are,
and to put him in your debt, and then sit down to wait for his ‘gratitude’,
you will probably be disappointed.
(People are not fools: they have a very quick eye for anything like showing off, or patronage.)
But whenever we do good to another self,
just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness /as we desire ours,
we shall have learned [to love it /a little more or, at least, to dislike it less].
* 형용사로 쓰인 what : how remarkable or striking for good or bad qualities ; What a charming girl!
* it = self
* 형역 현분사 forgiving 현분사의 능동 주체인 chap 수식,
* 삽입구인 형역 과분사구 made (like us) by God, 과분사의 수동 주체인 a self 수식
* 삽입구인 형역 현분사구 desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, 현분사의 능동 주체인 a self 수식,
From Mere Christianity
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity. Copyright © 1952, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1980, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.