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its exhausted force on the unconscious shore of time. What then ? Is 
the individual life, which has been its concrete product, but the lumin- 
ous foam on the crest of the wave only to fall darkling in its trough ? This 
is incompatible with our law of energy and progression. Where then 
is the next term of the series — the effect of which our evolution was 
the cause ? In the soul of man there have awakened the unfinished 
harmonies of beauty, truth, moral worth, happiness. The sphere of 
these lies beyond the sensuous and in them lies the promise of further 
development. 
If being is action, a pause in an uncompleted harmony would be 
its destruction. Harmony consists in relations of an orderly kind. 
To interrupt these relations would be to destroy them. However, 
this is not saying that consciousness is necessarily continuous. Evi- 
dently that is what Lotze had in mind when disturbed by pathology. 
Again, consciousness cannot be consciously interrupted, such an expres- 
sion simply means that more or fewer stimuli are, for a time, warded 
off from the soul. When all the sensuous images of life fade with the 
body, what new vistas shall open on the soul — what new music con- 
tinue the melody of familiar tones — who shall say ! As the energy of 
the being grows more subtile and its range increases, a thousand new 
stimuli awake it to unfelt sensations and unconceived rapture. 
This, it seems to us, is the logical induction from Lotze’s idea of 
being. He himself said that the ultimate criticism of a theory is based 
on what nature ought to do. Let us see how the theory applies in the 
realm of human interest and activity. 
If being is doing, the right to exist depends on the power to 
serve. is the device on nature’s escutcheon. Life is the 
rapturous pulse of every capillary in man’s nature and happiness is the 
harmonious vibration of every well-stretched fiber of our being. In 
the fulfillment of every obligation — the response to every call, lies the 
promise of perpetuity. The survival of the fittest is no longer a blind 
and atrocious fatality, it is but the reverse aspect of the law of devel- 
opment. To be fit is merely to be, and being or activity is survival. 
Of more practical interest is the personal application of this view. 
The essence of education and of growth is effort. Symmetrical educa- 
tion, in a true sense, is not so much an essential to success as success 
itself. In the idleness or inertness of any faculty lies the threat of its 
speedy extinction. Morality is not a possession but a power. Well- 
directed altruistic effort identifies self-interest and duty. 
The nature which responds most readily to every stimulus afford- 
ed by nature, and sees the beauty, and hears the harmony in all, mpst 
truly is. It is not the stooping student, the acerbid anchorite, the 
blind devotee, or the disciple of pleasure, who truly lives, but the man 
of two worlds whose body moves in this world while his spirit inhabits 
in inalienable possession temples above the clouds. [C. L H.] 
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