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yearn and strive for. It is the nature of the universe to 

 strive for and slowly, but in ever-increasing measure, to 

 attain wholeness, fullness, blessedness. The real defeat for 

 men as for other grades of the universe would be to ease the 

 pain by a cessation of effort, to cease from striving towards 

 the Good. The holistic nisus which rises like a living 

 fountain from the very depths of the universe is the guar- 

 antee that failure does not await us, that the ideals of Well- 

 being, of Truth, Beauty and Goodness are firmly grounded 

 in the nature of things, and will not eventually be endan- 

 gered or lost. Wholeness, healing, holiness — all expressions 

 and ideas springing from the same root in language as in 

 experience — lie on the rugged upward path of the universe, i 

 and are secure of attainment — in part here and now, and j 

 eventually more fully and truly. The rise and self-perfection 

 of wholes in the Whole is the slow but unerring process and 

 goal of this Holistic universe. 



