SECTION IX
THE WORLD'S GREATEST MEN
BUT there is a fundamental difference between man and the lower organisms as regards the relations with the environment. Though, no doubt, it is the conditions in the surrounding world that mould and modify the life and form of every living organism, it is man alone of all created beings that can make his own environment and create the opportunities, or, at any rate, rearrange the forces of the world, according to needs of his own development. Even unfavourable circumstances may be converted into useful instruments of his proper growth and progress.
It is possible for man to realise
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