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will your love develop sufficiently to enable you to 

 subordinate self to the race. But that way lies the 

 ideal; that way lies perfection. 



LAW OF MORTALITY 



We are all, high and low, rich and poor, wise and 

 foolish, prince and pauper, nobleman and commoner, 

 Caucasian and Ethiopian, Malay and Mongolian, pas- 

 sengers on one boat, bound to one port. The same 

 planet carries us, the same fate awaits us. Some may 

 travel first-class, some second, some steerage; but the 

 dangers which confront us are the same, our destina- 

 tion is the same. We are all living under one inexor- 

 able law of life and death. Sometimes, when a great 

 cataclysm overwhelms many of our race at one stroke, 

 we feel the truth of this oneness of race through this 

 inexorable law of life and death. The imaginations 

 of those of us who survive are impressed by the dramatic 

 quality of the blow. But the law of mortality is ever 

 the same. Whether it come in the form of earthquake, 

 thunderstorm, pestilence, famine, conflagration, vol- 

 canic outburst, intense cold, fierce heat, wild beast, or 

 in the more humble and usual form of disease, accident, 

 or simply man's inhumanity to man, death comes to 

 all alike. To ward off these enemies for all time from 

 the individual is not possible. The survival of the 

 individual unit is impossible. But we can, as a race, 

 present a united front to all these enemies of mankind 

 alike, realizing that thus only can the perfection of our 

 race be secured. We surely do not want, however, to 



