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Seaton left off reading and thrust the letter again in his pocket

"What will the world be worth?" he soliloquised--"Why, nothing!"

Suddenly struck by this thought, which had not always presented itself with such sharp and clear precision as now, he took time to consider it Capital and Labour, the two forces which are much more prone to rend each other than to co-operate--these would both possibly be non-existent if Science had its full way If gold, silver and other precious round, by a ray of light, then the striving for wealth would cease and ould be reduced to a mini If there were no need for effort, then the powers of mind and body would sink into inertia

"What object should we live for?" hes into the world to cumber it? The very idea is horrible! Work is the very blood and bone of existence--without it we should rot! But oneor some one--wife?--children?--Useless labour!--for in nine cases out often the wife becorateful Why waste strength and feeling on either?"

Thus , the exquisite lines of Tennyson's "Lotus Eaters" suddenly rang in his e where he had lived as a boy, when his mother, one of the past sweet "old-fashioned" women, used to read to him and teach him much of the best in literature,-"Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be? Let us alone Time driveth onward fast And in a little while our lips are dus are taken from us and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past, Let us alone What pleasure can we have To ith evil? Is there any peace In ever cli wave?"

An effortless existence would be the existence of such as these fabled Lotus Eaters--o on, since all Nature shows effort without cessation Roger Seaton knew this as all know it--but his soul's deht to know the CAUSE of all the toil and trouble,--the "why" it should be And at the back of his ana and her strange theories, some of which she had half iun For her Tennyson's line--"Death is the end of life"--would be the statement of a foolish fallacy, as she held that there is no such thing as death, only failure to adapt the spirit to advancing and higher change in its physical organisation To-day he remembered with curious clearness what she had said on this subject-"Radio-activity is the chief secret of life It is for us to learn how to absorb it into our systerow,--to add by its ives out,--nor should we The Nature-intention is that we should becoer, more beautiful, more mentally and spiritually perfect--and that we do not fulfil this intention is our own fault The deciues and famines has always been traceable to huh those who h hulect They are no part of the divine scheress from one point of excellence to another,--not to stop half way and turn back on the road Humanity dies, because it will not learn how to live"