The insect and the bird provide for the morrow, while they take no anxious thought for the morrow.

"The agility which achieves it is theirs, the skill and foresight absent from them remain with God.

And thus the simple life of lower natures, in its unconscious surrender to involuntary though internal guidance, becomes the negative type of perfect trust."[7] But to leave his instincts and appetites to work, unimpeded and unconscious, on their own plane, while he concerns himself with matters of truly human interest, is just what man is not content to do.

On the contrary, he takes his higher and spiritual nature down into them.

He enhances their pleasure with all the powers of his imagination; he sets his intellect to work to plot and plan for their gratification; he loads them with the whole force of his spiritual will, and in so doing he overloads and maddens them.