Excerpt from The Training School Quarterly, Vol. 1: July, August, September, 1914 Perhaps the trouble lies in our lack of positive convictions as to the purposes and aims as well as the end or destiny of human exist ence. Do we inquire into the why of things? Why the earth itself? Why the human race upon the earth? Why all the things we see and know, and what are their relations to each other and to us? A degree of harmony and interdependence between the forces Of nature with which we come into contact argues an intelligence antedating the existence of things. The existence Of the cause being established it should be easy for us to recognize from the harmony which exists in what we call the natural forces of the universe that there was and is a great plan, a deliberate scheme or schedule involving the universe, a definite purpose. When the divine voice commanded let there be light, the impelling motive was not merely the exercise of con trol over the elusive forces of awakening nature, for idle or uncer tain purpose, but rather the definite calling into existence of an ele ment for which there would be imperative need in the unfolding of a definite plan. 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.