Through the bare process of living, men not only learn fundamental facts about themselves and their world, but they are evidently working out certain purposes.

Of these purposes they do not, it is true, possess full knowledge; but complete knowledge is necessary neither for the demonstration of the existence of the purpose nor for those ethical and intellectual uses which that knowledge serves.

The life of the race is a revelation of the nature of man, of the character of his relations with his surroundings, and of the certain great lines of development along which the race is moving.

Every leading race has its characteristic thought concerning its own nature, its relation to the world, and the character and quality of life.

These various fundamental conceptions have shaped all definite thinking, and have very largely moulded race character, and, therefore, determined race destiny.