time," the evolved thinkers, the philosophers have by far the more
trying, and difficult life; for the highly individualized man or woman
cannot belong to any set school of ethics; there are no fixed
landmarks, religious or otherwise. Blinded by inherited prejudices, if
not by destructive tendencies, with ideals for which there is no
seeming avenue in this commonplace, workaday world; the life of such an
one is ever a grope toward the light of truth.

Lacking the sagacity, the primal instinct of self-protection in common
with the nature children of the wilds, he plunges forward on his unlit
way, and has many a fall into the bogs and morasses of life until he
finally sees that only from the higher, the spiritual side of existence
can come to humanity redemption from the errors, wrong thinking and
action that is the cause of all sin and sorrow of the world. Blessed,
indeed, are those to whom this understanding comes in time to harmonize
conflicting beliefs and tendencies, and to be the means of rounding out
the life, and perfecting that most potent and powerful of all things, a
noble human character.




MAN THE FINAL EARTH PRODUCT.

In man Nature has reached her highest evolution. His life and being
are the topmost rung of the ladder, but she has not finished with him.
It is universally believed that physical death severs everlastingly her
dominion over him, and thus ends all her service to him. This is by no
means true. Man is her offspring, her child, and to her he returns
again and again, drawing from her complex, multitudinous,