Excerpt from The Principles of Citizenship It is true that the immediate business of the moral philosopher concerns himself and his fellows. His universe 1s man. But man comes from afar, and has had a long pedigree in beast, and bird, and clod, and is the child of a Universe which we call material' (knowing little what we mean). And he may be going far, as haply we might see could we but know him as he truly is. He is the richest of all beings In marvels, - complex, everchanging, never static - his life a growing mystery, a web which has the Infinite and Finite for warp and woof. Even the visible universe borrows worth from him, and in him attains its highest. For though his mind can invent neither order, nor beauty, nor any kind of good, yet it alone can find them; and only in him, of all the finite beings we know, can they rise into existence. Borrowing the elemental forces of the physical world, in themselves silent and dark and without meaning, he lifts them into order and beauty in his soul they break out into the marvel of light and colour and the miracle of music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.