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sumed by the universal. You look at the objects of 

 man's creating with new eyes. The displays are no 

 longer contests of laborious industry but of vision 

 and faith. You see that truth has made itself mani- 

 fest through the long repetition of the same funda- 

 mental theme. That which is unique and personal 

 you are surprised to find of less value than the habit 

 perfected by patient practice. The routine and 

 monotony of daily toil become glorified in the light 

 that now falls athwart your vision. You learn to 

 substitute for your personal feeling the common im- 

 personal element felt by the many. Your concern 

 is not as formerly to recollect, but to symbolise. To 

 this end you study frieze and statuary, and frequent 

 lectures. Your sense of social solidarity grows 

 through mutual comprehension of the same truths. 



And again that " vexing, forward reaching sense 

 of some more noble permanence " urges you on. 

 " Time was," you joyously affirm, for man to come to 

 the knowledge of an eternal self. But that, your 

 tradition and education have led you to believe, is 

 still yonder, worlds away. And you image the soul 

 in its quest passing from life to life as you are now 

 passing from building to building, from hall to hall. 

 But blessed the thought there will be courts 

 wherein you may perhaps glimpse the plan of the 

 whole and so gather strength and purpose for an- 

 other housing. All at once you know that death has 

 no fear for you and you feel toward your present life 



