But a choice yet remains to us, because the character of
our civilization is not yet fixed. It is mainly germinal. It fills the
spirit with weariness to think of another nation following the old path,
without thought or imagination of other roads leading to new and more
beautiful life. Every now and then, when the world was still vast and
full of undiscovered wonders, some adventurers would leave the harbor,
and steer their galleys past the known coast and the familiar cities and
over unraveled seas, seeking some new land where life might be freer and
ampler than that they had known. Is the old daring gone? Are there not
such spirits among us ready to join in the noblest of all adventures--
the building up of a civilization--so that the human might reflect the
divine order? In the divine order there is both freedom and solidarity.
It is the virtue of the soul to be free and its nature to love; and
when it is free and acts by its own will it is most united with all
other life. Those planetary spirits who move in solemn motion about the
heavens I do not conceive as the slaves of Deity but as its adorers.
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