May 16

The study of human progress is one of the strangest studies in which we can engage. When we look about us, we see the one-sided fashion in which the world advances, now throwing forward one side, and then advancing the other side until it shall come up to it. It is not thus that the highest progress of the soul is pictured. It is not by putting forth first one part of our nature, to the exclusion of the other parts, and then letting the other parts overtake it, that man is really to advance. There must be a great power of advance that shall go on along the whole line. It must be that the total man, with all the powers of his existence, with all the life that has been given to him to live, shall move on together. That is the progress that we expect in the clear atmosphere, in the pure life, of the eternal world.