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shops of the world. Man will tap this energy some day, 

 some how. 



Of course we do not know this, but we believe it. We 

 believe it because we believe that Creation means something 

 and means it intensely. We have not come up through 

 Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic times for nothing. If all 

 the anguish of all the lives of all the past were to find one 

 common vocal expression what a cry to God there would be! 

 Are we to believe that the butcher, the baker and the 

 candlestick maker, to say nothing of the great masses of 

 men beneath them are worth all that? No. It is all a 

 promise. There must be a result in the world that is worth 

 all the world. It has been impossible in the past to even 

 glimpse this result. It was an action of pure faith to 'be- 

 lieve in it. But now that we know, or think we know, of 

 this infinite treasure-house of inter-elemental energy lying 

 latent for the hand of future man to use, it is neither diffi- 

 cult nor fanatical to believe that " beings who are now 

 latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins shall stand 

 upon this earth as one stands upon a foot-stool, and shall 

 laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars." 



Meanwhile, we feel that we know this: "In the beginning 

 God created " and in the midst of His creation He set down 

 man with a little spark of the Godhead in him to make him 

 strive to know, and in the striving, to grow and to progress 

 to some great, worthy, unknown end in this world. He gave 

 him hands to do, a will to drive, and seven senses to appre- 

 hend, just a working equipment; and so he has won his 

 way, so far, out of the horrible conditions of pre-history. 



To know, *is to work and to do ; and a new thing done is 

 forever a rung in the ladder by which man climbs, neces- 

 sary and good for all generations, until the summit is at- 

 tained and the ladder can be cast aside. 

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