meaning of life by robbing it of
moral order and meaning. The end
of such a conception of the universe
is necessarily annihilation, and its
mood is necessarily despair.

"How can a man come to know
himself?" asked Goethe. "Never
by thinking, but by doing." Now,
this knowledge of self in the large
sense is precisely the knowledge
which ripens and clarifies us, which
gives us sanity, repose, and power.
To know what is in humanity and
what life means to humanity, we
must study humanity in its active,
not in its passive, moods; in the
hours when it is doing, not think-
ing. Sooner or later all its thinking
which has any reality in it passes
on into action. The emotion, pas-
sion, thought, impulse, which never
gets beyond the subjective stage, dies

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