xiv INTRODUCTION 



and experiences which have come from one knows not 

 whence, or where, for the sake of a self-saving order. 



Shaking "off those tangled oracles which ignorantly 



guide . . ." 



In "high neglect of what's denied or said 

 This way or that way, in doctrinal writ. 

 Troubled no longer by the priestly lore." 



I have thrown the small verbal cash and other im- 

 pedimenta of my native province into the melting pot, 

 using wherever possible the irreducible sovereign 

 terms current in all mental exchange. And if you who 

 read will also, for the moment, lay aside your own 

 trappings, coming foot-free with me over some ne- 

 glected trails, it may be that we shall see more clearly 

 from our new point of view and perhaps more con- 

 vincingly because of its scientific setting that elemen- 

 tal truth which governs alike all the institutions of man 

 and of nature: The right to exist and the obligation to 

 serve are one and inseparable; for to exist is to give, 

 and to give is to receive. 



