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THE HIGHEST IDEAL 'TVHE living spirit of the ages is made up" of
ideals more or less visionary in their inception, more or less
unattainable in their plenitude. And in nations, as in individuals,
they are subject to the law o-f growth and decay?the law that
governs the seed in the soil, the star-dust in the planetary
system?as well as to the law of conservation. Like matter itself,
an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only
undergoes a change. It expresses itself in art and literature and
religion only after it has attained a certain degree of common
conception. An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that
he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive
people, even effete races have a message for those above or below
them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small, can not be
exhausted. That is why in periods of awakening, or of cataclysmic
change, the light often comes from unremembered and unexpected
sources?sources that were thought to be exhausted or barren. The
ideals of Greece, of Rome, of the Orient, the ideals even of
primitive man, come back to us, in the eternal cycle of the spirit,
to leaven our own. They often surprise us in moments of depression
or exaltation, in our silences, in our subliminal spells, even in
our daily grind. Out of the vague, even vagrant conceptions of the
mind an ideal slowly evolves, assumes definite shape and form.
Error- bound but truth-directed, we are constantly moving to a
certain goal in its unfolding infinitudes. Its fiat is universal,
despite its apparent failures. The grocer as well as the poet, at
one time or another, must recognize and accept its circulating
medium. Whether they squander it or save it or invest it?whether
they profit by it or not?is another questi...
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