all worth whatsoever. If we will to
learn from our own past, we can convert anything that is evil in it into
an occasion, an opportunity, a means to good which without it were not
possible. Thus we can even do what seems utterly impossible, for we can
without forgetting or ignoring or denying, forgive ourselves even the
evil which we have done. Yes, even the darkest and worst evil, the
disloyalty to ourselves, to the best and deepest within us, which all
but achieved the impossibility of finally defeating the march of
Progress. For the basis and ground of our belief in the reality, and
therefore the eternity, of Progress lies in this, that the now known
nature of the Spirit which is in Man and not in Man alone, is that it
can heal any wounds that it can inflict upon itself, can find in its own
errors and failures, in its own mistakes and misdeeds, if it only will,
the materials of richer and fuller and worthier life.

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| Transcriber's Notes |
| |
| Page 26: Opening and closing quotes added to "Beg humbly |
| that he unlock the door." |
| Page 89: _Suma Theologica_ _sic_ |
| Page 92: course amended to coarse |
| Page 165: preventible amended to preventable |
| Page 299: missing word "is" added ("so far as it is |
| realized") |
| |
| The footnote number is for footnote 81 is missing in the |
| original text. The location of the number that has been |
| added is only an assumption. |
| |
| Discrepancies between the Table of Contents and chapter |
| headings ("Government"/"Progress in Government"; |
| "Industry"/"Progress in Industry"; "Art"/"Progress in Art"; |
| "Science"/"Progress in Science" and "Philosophy"/"Progress |
| in Philosophy") have been retained. |
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