And the first process of his evolution is the awakening of conscience, and the struggle to rise from his mere Self to a higher ideal of life,--from material needs to intellectual development.

Why is he thus invariably moved towards this higher ideal?
If the instinct were a mistaken one, foredoomed to disappointment, it would not be allowed to exist.

Nature does not endow us with any sense of which we do not stand in need, or any attribute which is useless to us in the shaping and unfolding of our destinies.

True it is that we see many a man and woman who appear to have no souls, but we dare not infer from these exceptions that the soul does not exist.

Soulless beings simply have no need of spirituality, just as the night-owl has no need of the sun,--they are bodies merely, and as bodies perish.