CHAPTER IX 



SORROW AND ADVERSITY ESSENTIAL TO GROWTH 

 IN CONSCIOUSNESS 



" NOR YET ON THEE SHALL BURST THE FUTURE, AS 

 SUCCESSIVE ZONES OF SEVERAL WONDER OPEN ON SOME 

 SPIRIT FLYING SECURE AND GLAD FROM HEAVEN TO 

 HEAVEN ; BUT THOU SHALT PAINFULLY ATTAIN TO JOY, 

 WHILE HOPE AND FEAR AND LOVE SHALL KEEP THEE 

 MAN ! " 



Those who know but little of mathematics may 

 take comfort to themselves that mathematicians as a 

 class are seemingly as far from hyper-space percep- 

 tion as the rest of mankind. And since compara- 

 tively few persons have any real knowledge of the 

 spatial laws underlying our three-dimensional sense- 

 realm, we may assume that the attainment of a four- 

 way world is not contingent upon the understanding 

 of its mathematical structure. If then it be true that 

 the greater insight is not a matter of technical train- 

 ing, the humblest may hope to discover in the deep 

 well of life's experience some star of this new firma- 

 ment. 



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