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But such a life will be higher than mere human nature, because a

man will live thus, not in so far as he is man but in so far as

there is in him a divine Principle: and in proportion as this

Principle excels his composite nature so far does the Working

thereof excel that in accordance with any other kind of

Excellence: and therefore, if pure Intellect, as compared with

human nature, is divine, so too will the life in accordance with

it be divine compared with man's ordinary life.

Yet must we not give ear to those who bid one as man to mind only

man's affairs, or as mortal only mortal things; but, so far as we

can, make ourselves like immortals and do all with a view to

living in accordance with the highest Principle in us, for small

as it may be in bulk yet in power and preciousness it far more

excels all the others.