MAN'S PLACE. 



been purely and simply love of self. That is, if the 

 man is of a disposition to think for himself, and not ac- 

 cept the rules laid down by others who do the thinking 

 for him. 



When the love of ego has been developed for 

 thousands of years in the progenitors, it is hard for the 

 man to conceive of a greater being or form of being 

 than the ego. It is the love of self, pure and simple, 

 taking the form of a distant one, for modesty's sake. 



Man, instead of being the ruler of the universe 

 and the maker of worlds, is instead its greatest slave 

 in the order of nature, he being a necessity in the per- 

 petuation of the planet. He is dictated to by the order 

 of nature, and he must obey. Nature molded him out 

 of particles of earth that he may work without inter- 

 mission throughout his life, in keeping the earth in- 

 habitable to his kind. 



Man's greatest needs are manifest along the lines 

 conducive to the perpetuation of the planet. He being 

 one of nature's products and being made in the cooling 

 order of nature to further conserve the working order 

 of the whole body. Nature having molded him as all 

 other forms of life. Molding each for a purpose. 

 The principal purpose, and in fact only purpose, was 

 the planetary conservation. Each form of life tend- 

 ing to readjust active heat upon the body of the planet, 

 to further prolong its duration as a body. 



Man's nature conforming to the purpose he was 

 born to fulfill, he naturally becomes adapted to living 

 and necessary wants along the line conducive to the 



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