enable us as an associated body of
people to do better, wiser and more effective co-operative thinking and
working.

"To meet and satisfy our needs in this direction, these books were
chosen as a gift to our library, by Miss Fern Fenwick, the beautiful and
generous patroness of Solaris Farm. She desires me to emphasize her wish
that you abstain from any public expression of thanks. In lieu thereof,
she prefers to accept the measure of your diligence and enthusiasm in
acquiring the stores of knowledge thus offered, as the most appropriate
and satisfactory measure of your gratitude to her for the gift.

"To master the contents of these books, is to master the sum of human
knowledge in the various departments of science. With this mastery there
will come to us the largest understanding, and the clearest obtainable
conception of our relations toward each other, and to the universe
around us. Thus enlightened, we may discover that ignorance is a sin;
that as responsible entities in the great pulsing sea of cosmic life,
with more or less power to help or hinder the purpose and perfect
unfoldment of all life--we cannot afford to be selfish, sinful or cruel
in our actions toward each other, or toward any other form of cosmic
life. Having once acquired these convictions, with this most important
fund of information, we possess the key which will unlock the mystery of
the action and reaction of the potent and unseen forces of nature, which
affect us as individuals, as they do the earth, air and water, the
elements so necessary to our existence. The restless, never-satisfied,
questioning spirit, born with every human soul, is the expression of a
divine purpose! To gratify this insatiable desire for more knowledge, is
to comply with the demands of a wise cosmic law. By so doing, we enter
into the enjoyment of a never-failing source of perpetual delight. We
are crowned with a happiness of the purest type!

"In viewing this vast field of knowledge, spread so invitingly before
us; in anticipating the joy we may glean therefrom; we catch a glimpse
of the exceeding richness of the boon of immortality, which, as a
spiritual heritage, is waiting for us. We begin slowly to understand
ourselves as the repositories of infinite possibilities!--as cosmic
units of the larger Cosmos--as a perfect microcosm of the macrocosm!
With feelings of awe-inspiring adoration, we reflect that we may know
ourselves as individuals, only as the extent of ou