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that those other expressions of life may share with 

 him in the divine love and progress. Man having 

 risen to a state of at least partial knowledge, per- 

 ceives that the whole of being is full of desire, of 

 aspiration, of love. 



When he can rid himself of his materialism, in 

 part a remnant of the mistaken conceptions of an 

 ancient people; of his dogmas founded on a mis- 

 taken tradition long since contradicted by science ; 

 when he can believe that love is in and of the soul, 

 will he not pull the world speedily out of its baser 

 ideas, and up into its higher beauties and uses? 



In that wonderful " Story of my Heart,'' Richard 

 Jeffries gives us this conception of man's soul : — 



" By the word soul, or psyche, I mean that 

 inner consciousness which aspires." 



Again he says, " I consider that the highest 

 purpose of study is the education of the soul, or 

 psyche." 



And again, " Beyond and over the horizon I feel 

 that there are other waves of ideas unknown to me, 

 flowing as the stream of ocean flows." 



" Let me launch forth and sail over the rim of 

 the sea yonder; and when another rim rises, over 

 that, and again and onwards." 



Let us add to these words, for the inspiration of 

 those whose thoughts wander beyond the limits of 

 daily occupation into the regions of immensity 

 which lie so near the door of our feeble senses, this 

 thought from one of France's greatest minds: — 



