CHAPTER VI 



SOME SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF INVOLUTION 



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" NOR SHALL I DEEM MAN 5 S OBJECT SERVED, HIS END 

 ATTAINED, HIS GENUINE STRENGTH PUT FAIRLY 



O'ERLOOKS ITS PROSTRATE FELLOWS: WHEN THE 

 HOST IS OUT AT ONCE TO THE DESPAIR OF NIGHT, 



WHEN ALL MANKIND ALIKE IS PERFECTED, EQUAL IN 



FULL-BLOWN POWERS THEN, NOT TILL THEN, I 



SAY, BEGINS MAN ? S GENERAL INFANCY." 



There is an old Icelandic myth which tells of the 

 discomfiture that the god Thor underwent at the 

 hands of the giants, who set him the task of lifting 

 the Midgard Serpent, a snake so great that it 

 reached round the entire earth, but by illusion was 

 made to appear the size and shape of an ordinary 

 cat. Our failure to solve the education problem is 

 due to a similar misconception what we take for 

 the child-mind is a psychic entity as world-embrac- 

 ing as the Midgard Serpent, and, like the mighty 



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