THE FAITH OF A NATURALIST 



prime object of Nature. Our comfort and well-being 

 are provided for in the constitution of the world, but 

 we may say that they are not guaranteed; they are 

 contingent upon many things, but the chances are 

 upon our side. He that would save his life shall lose 

 it — lose it in forgetting that the universe is not a 

 close corporation, or a patented article, and that it 

 exists for other ends than our own. But he who can 

 lose his life in the larger life of the whole shall save 

 it in a deeper, truer sense. 



