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who are freed from lower ideals and motives are 

 reluctant to admit how enormously the world will 

 gain when energies now expended in soul-saving are 

 transferred to the amelioration of human ills, notably 

 in the direction of abolishing the shameful inequali- 

 ties begotten of selfishness and greed A mass of 

 emotion whose control is the supreme art of life will 

 then be directed into wholesome and useful channels. 



The revision to which this book has been sub- 

 jected has been confined mainly to correction of 

 textual errors and to additions required by events, 

 as, for example, the death of Herbert Spencer, which 

 have occurred since the first edition was published. 



E. C. 



September, 1907. 



