68 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



THE PLAINT OF THE SICK SELF IN ISOLATION 



Back to the life-form ! Unify ! Unify ! 



Wed thy soul to the Purpose universal; 



Deeply feel toward the well-spring of harmony; 



Upward live, and be glad. Trust, and cringe not. 



Soul that is self-bound, turn from the darkness ; 

 Sick is the lone life, the Whole shall befriend thee. 

 Live toward the vastness. Be glad. Trust, and cringe 



not. 



Fainting, or failing, all effort is God-ward; 

 Under and over thee strives the Eternal. 



JAMES A. MACKERETH. 



" Under a sheer evolutionary account of man, the 

 world of real persons, the world of individual respon- 

 sibility with its harmony of spontaneous dutifulness, dis- 

 appears. . . . The causality of self-consciousness the 

 causality that creates and incessantly re-creates in the 

 light of its own Idea, and by the attraction of it as an 

 ideal originating in the self-consciousness purely is 

 the only complete causality, because it is the only form 

 of being that is unqualifiedly free. . . . The conception 

 of evolution is founded at last and essentially in the con- 

 ception of Progress : but this conception has no meaning 

 at all except in the light of a goal; there can be no goal 

 unless there is a Beyond for everything actual ; and there 

 is no such Beyond except through a spontaneous 

 ideal. . . . 



" Not the solitary God, but the whole World of Spirits 

 including God, and united through recognition of him, 

 is the real ' Prime Mover ' of which since the culmination 

 of Greek philosophy we have heard so much. Its one- 



