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Rh a potential soul: we must fashion our souls for ourselves, without wasting our strength in external endeavors, in bodily labors for the service of the body. While Aristotle was plodding through the commonplaces of formal morality, Kwang-tze was setting up one of the pillars of Christian super-wisdom. Twenty-three centuries ago his voice condemned the exhausting mercantile superstition of our day.