1 86 Outlook to Nature 



tinguished from the mass. It stands for the 

 voluntary life. Each organism has its own 

 work to do, its own struggles to overcome, 

 its own perplexities to solve ; and it can be 

 itself only when it is master for itself. Each 

 organism is a part in a fabric, but each helps 

 in its own way in the general movement 

 toward destiny ; and it cannot escape the bur- 

 den of its own part unless it die. 



When intelligence has appeared, the organism 

 rises above its circumstances in a measure, and 

 it may have a choice of alternatives ; but it 

 cannot choose to cease to play its part in 

 the progress of life. 



Man is a part of the evolution record ; he 

 is partaker in the process, not a passive looker- 

 on. He is democrat amongst democrats, not 

 autocrat created of some different and cleaner 

 stuff. What supremacy he has is what he 

 wins. The pride of effort and accomplish- 

 ment is better than the pride of origin. Effort 

 works out of us the selfishness and arrogance. 

 There was need of the rise of some hypothesis 

 of altruism and tolerance, for nothing could have 



