ALL-MIND 213 



to assist nature by eliminating detrimental 

 factors and substituting those of a helpful 

 character ; but it is Nature herself who, taking 

 advantage of the more favourable conditions, 

 expends her surplus energy (Force-of-Life) in 

 modifying the original type. 



Nature can learn nothing from man, who is 

 part of herself, but man can and will acquire 

 from nature such knowledge as will eventually 

 lead him to a real understanding of the meaning 

 of life. 



The more we study nature the more surely 

 we realize that all her parts are linked together 

 and moved by the One Spirit — ^All-Mind. 



To quote Pope's admirable couplet, which 

 refers to that — 



" stupendous whole, 



Whose body nature is and God the soul." 



