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could return to his earthly haunts, he might hear his brothers singing 

 a hymn like this: 



A creed is a rod, 

 And a crown is of night; 

 But this thing is God, 

 To be man with thy might, 



To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit 

 And live out thy life as the light. 



VII 



With that rhythmic admonition ringing in my ears, I must take 

 leave of my subject. The day of supernaturalism will not quickly 

 pass for all mankind. Generation after generation we have been 

 taught to mistrust our nature, to see in it only weakness and imper- 

 fection, to regard this world as merely a door to another, to consider 

 our life here as a shadow in comparison with the reality beyond. 

 Habits of belief ingrained for centuries do not easily yield to a new 

 evangel. But each hour is increasing the number of those who seek 

 their revelation in human nature, their guidance in reason and the 

 experience of the race. Scientific thought, insisting on realistic 

 clarity and soundly based ethics, but transfusing them with kindness 

 and love, is proclaiming to the sons of men such a gospel as I have 

 feebly suggested in the foregoing pages; and one cannot fail to be 

 impressed by the number of those who are quietly accepting this less 

 mystical faith. "A future state, a purely spiritual world, in short, 

 the universe of the unseen and transcendent, may all be there; but 

 we can know our duty and live our life without the help of voices 

 heard so faintly that we cannot be sure whether they belong to Truth 

 or to Hope." Such is the profession of many earnest hearts, and who 

 shall say that they do not toil for their fellow-men devotedly and 

 unselfishly — and happily withal? Striving toward a clear-purposed 

 goal, they are glad and confident in the knowledge that the surest 

 path, nay, the only path, to the realm-of-things-as-they-ought-to-be 

 lies through the land-of-things-as-they-are. 



And let me not be told that such spirits are rare in this grim old 

 world! Do we not know goodly numbers of them, you and I? Do 



