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8. Two other ideals, which never appeared above the horizon in

Greek Philosophy, float before the minds of men in our own day:

one seen more clearly than formerly, as though each year and each

generation brought us nearer to some great change; the other

almost in the same degree retiring from view behind the laws of

nature, as if oppressed by them, but still remaining a silent

hope of we know not what hidden in the heart of man. The first

ideal is the future of the human race in this world; the second

the future of the individual in another. The first is the more

perfect realization of our own present life; the second, the

abnegation of it: the one, limited by experience, the other,

transcending it. Both of them have been and are powerful motives

of action; there are a few in whom they have taken the place of

all earthly interests.