CHAPTER CI 

 MENTAL REWARD 



THIS, of course, is the crowning reward. Mind 

 controls the world the more perfect its develop- 

 ment, the more perfect the control. In the longer 

 life-period the higher development is sure. Be- 

 ginning life with so much better physical and in- 

 tellectual endowments, aided by improved en- 

 vironment, the man develops faster, acquires a 

 wider range of knowledge, and becomes earlier and 

 better equipped for life work. Correspondingly 

 greater is the achievement. During the first hun- 

 dred years he accomplishes many times the usual 

 amount. During the second hundred he multi- 

 plies this amount indefinitely. The total excels 

 that of to-day as the work of Manhood excels that 

 of Childhood. 



No Utopia this. It is Nature the higher Evo- 

 lution. 



Mars is our object lesson. As revealed by the 

 telescope, astronomers tell us of broad zones of ice 

 and snow around the poles of that planet ; also of a 

 system of markings extending from the equator, 

 north and south, to the polar zones of ice. The 

 markings, it is claimed, indicate nothing less than 

 a vast system of canals, projected each way from 



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