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wants ? Then, indeed, the animals of the field are far better off 

 than he, for they are able to find their food with far less trouble, 

 and know no care for the morrow. 



But no ; the nobler faculties of man evidently point out to 

 him a more exalted path and higher duties. Self-improve- 

 ment, self-ennoblement, emancipation from the bonds of sensu- 

 ality and egotism these must be the chief aims of his existence, 

 and prepare him for that more perfect state of being of which 

 he bears the promise in his breast, and which has been re- 

 vealed to him by the Divinity itself ! 



