and more satisfactory life than he has ever known. Literally he
becomes a new man. Gradually the old desires and impulses fade away
and new and nobler aspirations take their place. He has learned
obedience to law only to find that obedience was the road to conquest.
He has risen above the gross and sensuous by the power of conscious
evolution; and, looking back upon what he has been with neither regret
nor apology, he comprehends that significant thought of Tennyson: On
stepping stones of their dead selves men rise to higher things.