2o8 Life and Love. 



creates astonishing and beautiful images to delight 

 his fellow-man. 



Endeavoring to give expression to the visions 

 which fill his imagination, he creates pictures, 

 statues, poems, melodies, which delight and inspire 

 and console his fellows. 



Love glorifies mind and heart and spirit. It 

 chastens the lower or mere physical impulses, it 

 strips man of his clinging inheritances from the 

 less exalted earth-life. 



From the first, life as a whole has tended up- 

 ward ; up, up, it has moved, through cycle after 

 cycle of advancing forms to man. And in man it 

 has moved from the lower savage to the Plato, the 

 Shakespeare, the Emerson. And up it will con- 

 tinue to move, the whole race rising toward the 

 plane of the most highly developed individuals. 



Love has been the great power in the later 

 world-progress, — love, reaching out to that sub- 

 lime consummation, love of all humanity. 



The survival of the fittest is not, in man, the sur- 

 vival of the one endowed with the greatest brute 

 force or the greatest selfishness. The teachers of 

 men, those whose lives and works live and influ- 

 ence the race are those with the finest intelligence, 

 the grandest spiritual growth. 



If in his search after happiness and knowledge, 

 in his groping for the best good this world can 

 ofifer, man falls below his best; if he mistakes the 

 high meaning of love and its offices ; if he attempts 



