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you most needed and you shirked it and lost 

 your opportunity. 



Everywhere is the plea for a cleaner atmos- 

 phere. We are beginning to realize its health 

 value. We insist on the abatement of nuisances, 

 that factories and engines shall burn their own 

 smoke, that sewerage shall be disposed of ac- 

 cording to best hygienic methods, that garbage 

 shall be cared for with least exposure, that 

 overcrowded portions of our cities shall be 

 checked, that poor tenement houses shall be 

 condemned, and so for scores of things that 

 militate against health and happiness. So do 

 we sense the need of a pure moral atmosphere. 

 Our world is surrounded with a deep sea in 

 which we live, it plays through our physical 

 organism and carries mystic potencies. So is 

 our thought-world surrounded by its ether not 

 less pervasive and vital. We cannot altogether 

 analyze it, nor tell its whole content, it surely 

 consists of ideas and thought influences that 

 have for ages been accumulating. Some of it 

 is stored in books, some of it compacted in in- 

 stitutions and much of it lives in human lives 

 about us. Soul atmosphere is an indescribable 

 reality. The air we breathe gets its richest vi- 

 tality from beyond its own sphere. It quivers 

 with forces that stream through it from the 



