240 THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MAN 



love, these are mutually exclusive. You cannot find 

 room in your mind for both members of the pair at 

 the same time. You must choose. And, when you 

 have chosen, abide by your choice. A ladleful of thin 

 dough fallen on the floor is very broad. But its 

 breadth is due to lack of consistency. Better narrow- 

 ness than such breadth. 



But while individual specialization may be safe for 

 the individual, and beneficial to the race, the race 

 which is to inherit the future must remain unspecial- 

 ized. It must not sacrifice future possibilities to pres- 

 ent rapidity of advance. And the common people 

 are advancing safely, slowly, but surely. Wealth and 

 learning become of permanent prospective and real 

 value only when they are invested in the masses. 

 They are the final depositaries of all wealth material, 

 intellectual, moral, and religious. Whatever, and only 

 that which, becomes a part of their life becomes there- 

 by endowed with immortality. Will we invest freely 

 or will we wait to have that which we call our own 

 wrested from us ? If we refuse it to our own kin and 

 nation, it will surely fall to foreigners. " God made 

 great men to help little ones." 



The city of God on earth is being slowly " builded 

 by the hands of selfish men." But the builders are 

 becoming continually more unselfish and righteous, 

 and as they become better and purer its walls rise the 

 more rapidly. 



