The Logic of Evohttion 



ergy is dissipated and wasted, and failure Is sure 

 to follow. Only the highest ends and motives 

 can call forth the Titanic energy of man's high- 

 est powers. In so far as he fails of the very 

 highest, he fails to be a man. To these highest 

 spiritual powers and ends all lower powers and 

 ends must be strictly and sternly subordinated. 



But conversely the physical and the lower 

 mental must be developed to the utmost as the 

 necessary servant and supporter of the higher. 

 Otherwise, however good and high his goal and 

 ends, he Is powerless to attain them himself or 

 to lead and lift others to them. The machine 

 Is no stronger than Its weakest point — physical, 

 mental, or moral. 



Man's greatest danger Is that of Incomplete 

 development.^ The goal of evolution Is a com- 

 plete manhood, where the tough body, clear and 

 cool mind, warm heart with Its Intense feelings, 

 and Iron will set on the highest ends are all 

 combined In one royal life. This alone Is that 

 wholeness, haleness, health, holiness, salvation 

 — call It what you will — which characterizes the 



^ Clouston, T. S., "Neuroses of Development," London, 

 1891. 



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