have shown that the theory is false; it
is false, not only because of its unhappy effects, but it belies the
characteristic nature of man. Human nature, this time-binding power, not
only has the peculiar capacity for perpetual progress, but it has, over
and above all animal propensities, certain qualities constituting it a
distinctive dimension or type of life. Not only our whole collective life
proves a love for higher ideals, but even our dead _give_ us the rich
heritage, material and spiritual, of all their toils. There is nothing
mystical about it; to call SUCH a class a _naturally_ selfish class is not
only nonsensical but monstrous.

This capacity for higher ideals does not originate in some
"_super_natural" outside factor; it is _not_ of extraneous origin, it is
the expression of the time-binding element which we _inherently_ possess,
independently of our "will"; it is an inborn capacity--a _gift_ of nature.
We simply are made this way and not in any other. There is indeed a fine
sense in which we can, if we choose, apply the expression--survival of the
fittest--to the activity of the time-binding energies of man. Having the
peculiar capacity to survive in our deeds, we have an inclination to use
it and we survive in the deeds of our creation; and so there is brought
about the "survival in time" of higher and higher ideals. The moment we
consider Man in his proper dimension--active in TIME--these things become
simple, stupendous, and beautiful.

"Note the radical character of the transformation to be effected.
The world shall no longer be beheld as an alien thing, beheld by
eyes that are not its own. Conception of the whole and by the
whole shall embrace _us_ as _part_, really, literally,
consciously, as the latest term, it may be, of an advancing
sequence of developments, as occupying the highest rank perhaps in
the ever-ascending hierarchy of being, but, at all events, as
emerged and still emerging _natura naturata_ from some propensive
source within. I grant that the change in point of view is hard to
make--old habits, like walls of rock, tending to confine the tides
of consciousness within their accustomed channels--but it can be
made and, by assiduous effort, in the course of time, maintained.
Suppose it done. By that reunion, the whole regains, while the
part retains, the consciousness the latter purloined.... In the
whole universe of events, no