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     Man dwells not in one world but two.

     As God is the sire, so is nature the mother of every man. The body of man is of the dust, his spirit from on high. Only as that spirit stirs within him does he rise — the animal in him recede before the human in him, his humanity rise above his animality. Then is he born again into a new kingdom, not of being but of doing, not of existence but of transcendence, not of life merely, but of attainment — of life more abundant. He is no more mere creature, but a creator. For he has learned the mind of God and made that mind and his at one. And in this at–one-ment he is divine, a co-creator with God. His own spirit dreams and in the drama of creation he plays his part; he enters into the joy of the Lord.

     Man is the child of two worlds. Of his material world he has gained much knowledge and mighty power over it — for good or for ill. Of his social world he knows little and has but little power.

     How shall man gain over his social even a portion of the knowledge and cooperative control that he has so far gained over his material world?

     Those eager for an answer to the modern riddle of the Sphinx — How can men of good will exercise in the social scene even a modicum of the beneficent control they have gained over their material world — will find here a severely rational and scientific yet none the less a very high and predominantly spiritual approach.

     Nature is the mother of man, but he dwells not in one world but in two. His body is of the earth earthy, but his spirit — his inspiration — is from on high. Only as that spirit stirs in him does he rise, his humanity arrives, his mere animality is exalted and he is made whole and completely distinguishable from the animal world and from his own animal past. He enters now into a new kingdom; he is born again.

     To enter this he must love his fellow men in the same manner that he loves himself — by serving not himself but them and letting them serve him as he serves them. This is the golden key, the Golden Rule of loving others not by mere feelings of love but by doing.⁶⁶⁵