ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



searchable, one may assume for the time 

 being that the hearts of other people are not. 

 Searching them by their own light, and 

 the light of the searcher's heart, one reaches 

 the conclusion that the most marvelous 

 characteristic of man is the endless gamut 

 of his responsiveness and its manifold ex- 

 pression. All other wonders of creation pale 

 beside a being so endowed that he is related 

 to everything in the universe. Not only is 

 there nothing human which is foreign to him, 

 but virtually nothing sentient or non-sentient 

 to which he is totally indifferent, or in which 

 he is incapable of becoming interested. This 

 description, of course, ignores the man who 

 is "dead to rapture or despair," and refers 

 to evolved man, as the being who has the 

 greatest capacity for being alive. Such a 

 man is responsive, in varying degrees, to 

 everything that lives and moves and has 

 being. Nor does his sense of kinship stop 

 with those of his race and kind, or with the 

 horse, dog, or cat, which he loves to stroke, 

 but tapers off into fine capillary attachments 

 to birds, bumblebees, rivers, rocks, trees, 



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