en are still
looking forward. But the care-free life of the primitive man set him
thinking--opened his eyes to certain truths which, until now, he had
failed to observe. Longings for the unattainable began to stir within
him and take hold of him in a manner entirely new. Hazy, fragmentary
glimpses of hitherto undreamed possibilities began to shape themselves
in his mind. The immensity and profundity of the universe and the
mysterious growth of its hidden life held and enthralled him.

The last word, he felt, had not yet been spoken. There was something
lacking in the so-called civilized man's economy--a lack which his
philosophy failed to account for, but which was not observable among
animals and primitive men. There, the economy of the infinite cosmic
mechanism which binds and holds all manifestations of life in one
harmonious whole was too apparent to even suggest the detachment of a
single form of life from this whole, but with the civilized man it was
different. He alone seemed to have detached himself from this harmonious
whole--his life stood out as a thing separate and apart from it. There
seemed to be no permanent place for him in the economy of nature.

But how had this estrangement taken place? Why was he, the
intellectually developed man, incapable of living in harmony with the
universal law of life when it was so easy for the primitive man to do
so? It was evident that he had lost his way somewhere along the path of
normal development. Everything pointed to this--its signs were apparent
to all who wished to see. Nature voiced it on every hand, in the forests
and plains and on the mountain tops, and during the silence of night as
he lay on the ground gazing at the stars overhead.

The wind that sighed among the ruined temples of the ancient races and
the mountains that looked down upon them seemed to speak to him in the
ever recurring refrain: "Behold the works and glories of men--we are
enduring! The same wind that sighs among them this day, sang to them
when their walls and pillars stood erect. The same mountains that
shadowed them in the past, will still stand guard over the valleys in
the days to come when the works of the present and future generations of
men have passed away forever!"

He knew that these questions had been asked during countless
generations, and that men were still asking them to-day. He knew also
that man's situation in the universe was taking on a new aspect, and yet
it was stran