48 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



will have become conscious that he himself is because 

 other Selves are. Each Self will know that however 

 much of struggle ending in triumph or defeat, how- 

 ever much of ambition, mean or noble, enter into the 

 great drama of human life, it is all only a part of the 

 stupendous totality of things, the supreme glory of 

 which is, so far as positive knowledge can reach, that 

 it has produced and is producing man not only at his 

 worst, but also at his best. 



