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impassable. Furthermore, if man with his present 

 glory of intellect and of moral impulse, has sprung 

 from a creature whose superiority to the ape lay 

 chiefly in its potentialities, then it does not yet appear 

 what he shall be. We can judge the future only by 

 the past. Through the long ages the development has 

 been very slow. Through the last hundred thousand 

 years the development of man has been wonderfully 

 rapid, compared with v/hat went before, though it 

 seems slow enough when we look at it from the 

 standpoint of our historical and traditional reports. 

 But with this added impulse, this rapid improvement 

 that has come with the development of mind instead 

 of muscle, of tooth and of claw, we have every prom- 

 ise of an evolution that shall far surpass anything 

 that has yet come. To-day our leaders are way be- 

 yond the average of the mass. Who shall doubt that 

 in a not too distant to-morrow, the masses shall be 

 where the leaders of to-day now are. We shall not 

 then have reached a dead level of superiority. Our 

 leaders will have moved on as rapidly as have the 

 masses, and will be as far ahead of them then as 

 they are now. It shall be their work to apprehend 

 new virtues, and to work them out in their lives. The 

 masses, seeing the beauty of the lives of the leaders, 

 recognizing in those lives the revelation of the divine 

 power which they have apprehended, will hunger to 



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