The last wave must sink that the next may rise, and the whole tide flow shorewards.

The man must awake through all his soul, all his strength, all his mind, that he may worship God in unity, in the one harmonious utterance of his being: his heart must be united to fear his name.

And for this final perfection of the individual the race must awake.

At this season and that season, this power or that power must be chiefly developed in her elect; and for its sake the growth of others must for a season be delayed.

But the next generation will inherit all that has gone before; and its elect, if they be themselves pure in heart, and individual, that is original, in mind, will, more or less thoroughly, embody the result, in subservience to some new development, essential in its turn to further progress.