rising above abnormal conditions.
They stand for wholeness amid frag-
ments, for perfection amid imperfec-
tion; but the very imperfection and
fragmentariness by which they are
surrounded predicts their coming and
affirms their reality.

In the rounded and developed na-
ture there must be a deep vein of the
Idealism which grows out of the vision
of things in their large relations -- out
of a view of men ample enough to
discern not only what they are at this
stage of development, but what they
may become when development has
been completed. Nothing is more
essential than the courage, the joy,
and the insight which grow out of
such an Idealism, and no spiritual
possession is more easily lost. The
spiritual depression of a reactionary
period, the routine of work, the im-

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