The Destiny of Man. 6) 



ness, and the complexity of the means. 

 But in civilized society other ends, purely 

 immaterial in their nature, have come to 

 add themselves to these, and in some in- 

 stances to take their place. It is long 

 since we were told that Man does not live 

 by bread alone. During many genera- 

 tions we have seen thousands of men, ac- 

 tuated by the noblest impulse of which 

 humanity is capable, though misled by the 

 teachings of a crude philosophy, despising 

 and maltreating their bodies as clogs and 

 incumbrances to the life of the indwelling 

 soul. Countless martyrs we have seen 

 throwing away the physical earthly life as 

 so much worthless dross, and all for the 

 sake of purely spiritual truths. As with 

 religion, so with the scientific spirit and 

 the artistic spirit, the unquenchable 

 craving to know the secrets of nature, and 

 the yearning to create the beautiful in 

 form and colour and sound. In the high- 

 est human beings such ends as these have 

 come to be uppermost in consciousness, 



