THE S\VARA\ 



wishes fulfilled. We are so made that 

 nothing contents us ; that we can regard 

 no single thing as having its aim self- 

 contained, as simply existing, with no 

 thought beyond existence. Has there been, 

 to this day, one god out of all the multi- 

 tude man has conceived, from the vulgar- 

 est to the most thoughtful, of v/hom it 

 has not been required that he shall 

 be active and stern, that he shall create 

 countless beings and things, and have 

 myriad aims outside himself? And v,-ill 

 the time ever come v;hen we shall be 

 resigned for a few hours tranquill}- to 

 represent in this world an interesting 

 form of material activity; and then, our 

 few hours over, to assume, without sur- 

 prise and v;ithout regret, that other form 



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