y means selfish, soon become
food for a vice.

She gradually grows to consider herself a very superior person. She is
so charming and so much to be desired, that some man works night and day
in his office, sacrificing both pleasure and rest, that she may have the
baubles for which she yearns.

It is not far from absolute self-satisfaction, in either man or woman,
to generous bestowal of enlightenment upon the unfortunate savages who
linger on the outskirts of one's social sphere.

In the infinite vastness of creation, where innumerable worlds move
according to the fiat of majestic Law, there lies one called Earth.
There are planets within reach of the scientific vision of its
inhabitants that are many times larger. There are some which have more
moons, more mountains and rivers, longer days, and longer years.
Countless suns, the centres of other vast planetary systems, lie in the
inconceivable distances beyond.

[Sidenote: A Mote in the Sun]

In the midst of this unspeakable greatness, Earth swings like one of the
motes which a passing sunbeam illumines. Upon this mote, one fifth of
the inhabitants have assumed supreme knowledge and understanding, given
them, doubtless, because of their innate superiority. This preferment,
also, is theirs by the grace of an infinitely just and merciful God.

The other four fifths are supposedly in total darkness, though the same
heavens are over their heads, the same earth under their feet, and
though the light of sun and moon and the gentle radiance of the stars
are freely given to all.

There are the same opportunities for development and civilisation, but
they have not received The Enlightenment. To them must go the foreign
missionaries, to teach the things which have been graciously given them
on account of their innate superiority.

[Sidenote: Narrowing Circles]

Man's life is a succession of narrowing circles. He admits the force of
the heliocentric idea, for it is the sun which gives light and heat.
Then the circle narrows, almost imperceptibly, for, of all the planets
which circle around the sun, is not Earth the chief?

This point being gained, he is inside the geocentric circle. Earth is
the centre of creation. Sun, moon, and stars are auxiliary forces,
bountifully arranged by the Giver of all Good for Earth's beauty and
comfort. Of all the creatures who share in this, is not man the most
important? Thus he retreats to the anthropocentric circle.

[Sidenote: By S