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the earth display endless variety. They swim in 

 the waters, soar in the skies, squeeze among the 

 rocks, clamber among the trees, scamper over the 

 plains, and glide among the grounds and grasses. 

 Some are born for a summer, some for a century, 

 and some flutter their little lives out in a day. 

 They are black, white, blue, golden, all the colours 

 of the spectrum. Some are wise and some are 

 simple ; some are large and some are microscopic ; 

 some live in castles and some in bluebells ; some 

 roam over continents and seas, and some doze 

 their little day-dream away on a single dancing 

 leaf. But they are all the children of a commion 

 mother and the co-tenants of a common world. 

 Why they are here in this world rather than some 

 place else ; why the world in which they find 

 themselves is so full of the undesirable ; and 

 whether it would not have been better if the ball 

 on which they ride and riot had been in the 

 beginning sterilised, are problems too deep and 

 baffling for the most of them. But since they are 

 here, and since they are too proud or too super- 

 stitious to die, and are surrounded by such cold 

 and wolfish immensities, what would seem more 

 proper than for them to be kind to each other, 

 and helpful, and dwell together as loving and 

 forbearing members of One Great Family ? 



Act toward others as you would act 

 toward a part of your own self. 



This is The Great Law, the all-inclusive gospel 

 of social salvation. It is the rule of social recti- 

 tude -.nd perfection which has been held up in 



