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 not, the race would have been given up long, long ago as a hopeless affair. On the other hand, steer clear of complacence. You can never be. too good, you can never do too much good. in this world. The very fact that so much has been done itself denotes that such a great deal more is yet possible. The third requisite is Fellow-ship. Attach yourself to somebody whom you know to be pure, that so the current of pure thought and aspiration may set into your heart from a higher being. Here again, it is the same discipline that all great religions have prescribed as a rich spring of inspiration and moral energy— sadhusangam, as it is called. It is the self-same satsangatvam which the deep-sighted Sankaracharya has, in his marvellous survey of the soul's progress, named as the starting stage. There is a notion common amongst us that heroes are few and far between and the bulk of the people form but the nondescript crowd, the motley mob. It is not really so in the moral government of the world. There is