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to dispel the shadows of non-participation and non- 

 persistence by considering the possibiHties of mundane 

 and transmundane conservation of values. 



Work a Satisfaction in Itself 

 These lights are surely worthy of our most serious 

 consideration, but we venture to make a practical sug- 

 gestion. Sometimes we live a day so very fine that 

 we say to ourselves : Well, this justifies it all. We warm 

 both hands — of soul and body — at the fire of life, and 

 are content. We would willingly enjoy more, but we 

 would not grumble. We have spent a pleasant day 

 with our host, and we are not angry if he does not ask 

 us to stay the night. So, though not on any easy terms, 

 would we have it with our life, that it be on the whole, 

 and in many of its parts, sufficient reward in itself. So 

 would we have it for all mankind. For the past it has 

 not been so ; but these conditions are slowly passing. 

 We would that all men of good-will should find their 

 lives good in themselves. As it says in Ecclesiastes : 

 *' So I recognised that there is no greater satisfaction 

 for a man than to be happy in his work — ^that is his 

 reward." Thus in reference to mankind, progress may 

 be defined as a balanced movement of a social whole 

 towards fuller embodiment of the supreme values (the 

 true, the beautiful, and the good) in circumstances which 

 increasingly reahse the fundamental physical and biolo- 

 gical pre-conditions of stabiHty and persistence, and in 

 lives which are increasingly rewards in themselves, both 

 individually and socially. 



