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CHAPTER IV

HOPE AND PROGRESS FOR HUMANITY


“He that drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”
Christ.

“That which is filled with the more real is more really filled.”
Plato.


Man is a creature active in the world, and an all-absorbing faith in the supremacy of good must affect his action and expectation. But here again in particularising we are very apt to run up into blind alleys. Nowhere is it more important to keep our starting-point full in sight. In religion, man acknowledges his finiteness; it is essential to the basis of the experience, though it is not the whole basis. Religion says. You are victorious in the victory of