seer into expressionless life by the utter lack of any
comprehension by their dull, selfish fancy. Ye gods! How they exult
in doing it! This trick is played upon sensitive, modest, gifted
people everywhere. Fools set the pace and rule, and those who know the
least of the responsibilities of living are the first to rush forward
and grab them up. Envy and jealousy have it all their own way, and so
it is the world around; everyone is forced to pay a fearful price for
his superiority.

At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and
philanthropy, weary of the "storm and stress" of life and of invasions
and intolerable "bumptiousness" of the vulgar and indiscriminating,
have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and
simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship
fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not
permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven
on earth all to themselves. This cannot be. They must stand apart
each in their place, out in the world--"in the open"--that they may
each one stand as a beacon light, object lesson, leader, and thus
assist in "leavening the whole lump" of ignorant and unregenerate
humanity.

HAPPINESS.

Happiness is the final achievement of the human soul. Perfect
happiness can only come as the result of absolute at-one-ment with God,
the divine will, and in this conforming there is no loss of
personality, or of individuality; it only rounds out the soul into its
godlike completeness. It is unimaginable that there should come loss
of any attribute of the soul on its way up to the rendez-vous with its
Parent, God. Rather, that its powers should increase in every possible
direction with use, in conformity with divine law. This is the only
true happiness.

The ideals of happiness cherished by men take in an immensely wide
range, and bring into action all the peculiar attributes of the
composite natures of man. The brutal instinct cries out: "Kill! kill!"
Bloodsheding is its ravishing delight. When it arrives at a point
where it may not destroy its fellows, the whole created animal
kingdom--including woman--is its prey. Wars and rumors of wars will
never cease on this planet until humanity at large develops out of this
grade which expects to find happiness in the exercise of its very
lowest, primitive instincts.

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