to be always calling the imaginative
boy away from the familiar fields and
hearth do not conspire against his
peace, however much they may con-
spire against his comfort; they help
him to the fulfilment of his destiny
by suggesting to his imagination the
deeper experience, the richer growth,
the higher tasks which await him in
the world beyond the horizon. Man
is a wanderer by the law of his life;
and if he never leaves his home in
which he is born, he never builds a
home of his own.

It is the law of life that a child
should leave his father and separate
himself from his inherited surround-
ings, in order that by self-unfolding
and self-realisation he may substi-
tute a conscious for an unconscious, a
moral for an instinctive relation. The
instinct of the myth-makers was

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