70 "fHE COMING OF MAN 



diction of terms. The depths of his own being astonish or 

 awe him. All this he knows, and can forget or neglect. 



Most of all, he is still very incompletely personalized. He 

 is on the way to a fully developed personality. As ever before 

 his possibilities may be infinite, but his realized attainments 

 on this new plane of life are few and small. Man is still 

 coming, he has not yet arrived, — even in these great United 

 States of America. 



Said Huxley: '^ Man now stands as on a mountain-top far 

 above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from 

 his grosser nature by reflecting here and there a ray from the 

 infinite source of truth. And thoughtful man once escaped 

 from the blinding influences of tradition and prejudice will 

 find in the lowly stock whence man has sprung the best 

 evidence of the splendor of his capacities, and will discern in 

 his long progress through the past a reasonable ground of 

 faith in his attainment of a nobler future." ^ 



The air on the mountain-top is rarefied and the light daz- 

 zling; the language of its inhabitants sounds somewhat foreign 

 to us. We leave man as a person to and with the psychologist 

 and philosopher, and return to our '' humble fellows " in the 

 valley, where we are more at home. 



