teach a child to drive a motor-car, but unless you can at the same time invest him with powers of observation and caution and promptness in emergency beyond his years, his driving will end in a smash.

Harmonious Development

Now it is just this inspiration beyond our natural acuteness, of foresight beyond our unaided vision, that we require for the really useful employment of any enhanced powers that may come to us as the result of our increasing knowledge; and this is not to be drawn from the knowledge of what we may call the merely mechanical working of the Law of Cause and Effect, whether on the side of the visible or of the invisible.That knowledge, taken by itself, is only the lower knowledge --- learning, so to say, how to do the particular trick. But to make it of real value, we need to know not only how to do it, but why to do it. And since the only true why is the building up of a harmonious whole both in ourselves and in the race --- a whole which, by an organic connection between the causes sown today and the results produced tomorrow, shall continually germinate into greater and greater fullness of joyous life --- and since the production of such a continuously growing and rejoicing wholeness is the only reasonable purpose to which our knowledge and our powers, whether great or small, can be applied, how are we to get such an outlook into the unending future and into our present relations in all