332 ADAPTATION AND PROGRESS 
reveal the possibilities of a spiritual life. It is chiefly through 
these that the mass of humanity is lifted in some small degree 
above the plane of physical necessity into the freer air of liberty 
and light. This is the way of life that Browning has so truth- 
fully described: — 
‘. . . Already you include 
The multitude; then let the multitude 
Include yourself; and the result were new. 
Themselves before, the multitude turn to you. 
This were to live and move and have, in them, 
Your being, and secure a diadem 
You should transmit (because no cycle yearns 
Beyond itself, but on itself returns) 
When, the full sphere in wane, the world is o’erlaid 
Long since with you, shall have in turn obeyed 
Some orb still prouder, some displayer, still 
More potent than the last, of human will, 
And some new kind depose the old.’ ”’ 
