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impassable. Furthermore, if man with his present 
glory of intellect and of moral impulse, has sprung 
from a creature whose superiority to the ape lay 
chiefly in its potentialities, then it does not yet appear 
what he shall be. We can judge the future only by 
the past. Through the long ages the development has 
been very slow. Through the last hundred thousand 
years the development of man has been wonderfully 
rapid, compared with what went before, though it 
seems slow enough when we look at it from the 
standpoint of our historical and traditional reports. 
But with this added impulse, this rapid improvement 
that has come with the development of mind instead 
of muscle, of tooth and of claw, we have every prom- 
ise of an evolution that shall far surpass anything 
that has yet come. To-day our leaders are way be- 
yond the average of the mass. Who shall doubt that 
in a not too distant to-morrow, the masses shall be 
where the leaders of to-day now are. We shall not 
then have reached a dead level of superiority. Our 
leaders will have moved on as rapidly as have the 
masses, and will be as far ahead of them then as 
they are now. It shall be their work to apprehend 
new virtues, and to work them out in their lives. The 
masses, seeing the beauty of the lives of the leaders, 
recognizing in those lives the revelation of the divine 
power which they have apprehended, will hunger to 
