ife and Power--the source
of all life and all power. We need not look for outside help when we
have within us waiting to be realised, and thereby actualised, this
Divine birthright.

Browning was prophet as well as poet when in "Paracelsus" he said:

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things, whate'er you may believe.
There is an inmost centre in us all,
Where truth abides in fulness; and around
Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in,
This perfect, clear perception--which is truth.
A baffling and perverting carnal mesh
Binds it, and makes all error: and, to know
Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to be without.

How strangely similar in meaning it seems to that saying of an earlier
prophet, Isaiah: "And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying,
This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand and when
ye turn to the left."

All great educators are men of great vision. It was Dr. Hiram Corson who
said: "It is what man draws up from his sub-self which is of prime
importance in his true education, not what is put into him. It is the
occasional uprising of our sub-selves that causes us, at times, to feel
that we are greater than we know." A new psychology, spiritual science,
a more commonsense interpretation of the great revelation of the Christ
of Nazareth, all combine to enable us to make this occasional uprising
our natural and normal state.

No man has probably influenced the educational thought and practice of
the entire world more than Friedrich Froebel. In that great book of his,
"The Education of Man," he bases his entire system upon the following,
which constitutes the opening of its first chapter: "In all things there
lives and reigns an eternal law. This all-controlling law is necessarily
based on an all-pervading, energetic, living, self-conscious, and hence
eternal, Unity.... _This Unity is God._ All things have come from the
Divine Unity, from God, and have their origin in the Divine Unity, in
God alone. God is the sole source of all things. All things live and
have their being in and through the Divine Unity, in and through God.
All things are only through the divine effluence that lives in them. The
divine effluence that lives in each thing is the essence of each thing.

"It is the destiny and life work of all thin