nite purposes are being wrought out
through physical forms, processes,
and forces; science reveals clearly
enough certain great lines of devel-
opment. In like manner, although
with very significant differences, cer-
tain deep lines of growth and expan-
sion become more and more clear in
human history. Through the bare
process of living, men not only learn
fundamental facts about themselves
and their world, but they are evidently
working out certain purposes. Of
these purposes they do not, it is true,
possess full knowledge; but complete
knowledge is necessary neither for
the demonstration of the existence of
the purpose nor for those ethical and
intellectual uses which that knowl-
edge serves. The life of the race is
a revelation of the nature of man, of
the character of his relations with his

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