EACH FOR ITS OWN SAKE 



man, — all our dreams of perfection, of immortality, 

 of the good, the beautiful, the true, all our venera- 

 tion and our religious aspirations, — this is Nature, 

 too. 



Man is a part of the universe; all that we call 

 good in him, and all that we call bad, are a part of the 

 universe. The God he worships is his own shadow 

 cast upon the heavens, and the Devil he fears is 

 his own shadow likewise. The divine is the human, 

 magnified and exalted; the satanic is the human, 

 magnified and debased. 



We find God in Nature by projecting ourselves 

 there; we find him in the course of history by read- 

 ing our own ideals into human events; we find him 

 in our daily lives by listening to the whisperings of 

 our own inherited and acquired consciences, and by 

 dwelling upon the fatality that rules our lives. 



We had nothing to do with our appearance here 

 in this world, or with the form our bodies take, or 

 with our temperaments, and, only in a degree, with 

 our dispositions. Some power other than ourselves 

 brought us here and maintains us here for a period, 

 as it brought here and maintains all other forms of 

 life; but, I repeat, that power is inseparable from 

 the physical and chemical forces, and goes its way 

 whether we prosper or perish. Yet it is more posi- 

 tive than negative, more for us than against us, else 

 we should not be here. 



Where does man get his ethical standards? Where 



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