Human Life. 197 



with conscious intelligence came the higher devel- 

 opment of the moral nature. 



Man, through knowledge, became a responsible 

 agent; no longer wholly the creature of circum- 

 stance, he began to rule his own destiny and deter- 

 mine his own line of progression. With knowledge 

 came to him the sacred responsibility to live in 

 obedience to the laws he had discovered. The 

 result of obedience was the privilege of mounting 

 with conscious joy the heights still before him ; 

 while disobedience brought the terrible punishment 

 of conscious retrogression. 



