THE MASTER-BUILDER 229 



plan, as the Galaxy or those nebulae where new worlds 

 are already spinning on her wheel, like clay upon the 

 potter's. 



Remember that you are a link in an eternal chain, 

 and that your duty is neither to mourn the prevalent 

 pattern nor unduly to glorify it. Rather keep your 

 personal link free from rust, that it shall sustain its 

 proper strain in the world -order. Thus there may 

 steal into your life peace and patience, and that 

 " quiet unity which alone can compress any achieve- 

 ment into the few human years." 



Above all, love the truth better than yourself. To 

 fail of that is to squander the grandest possibility of 

 the human heart. 



