There is inherent in the nature of every man a desire for a higher attainment of life–experience than can be wrested from the visible material surroundings.
Beginning early in life—sooner with some than with others—there comes an inward awakening, a reaching upward and outward toward the realization of a soul–born ideal.
The promises held out by the institutions of the world are eagerly grasped, taken in, tested by reason and that divine sense of Truth—God—existent in every human consciousness; and, after consideration, either partially or wholly rejected, according to the degree of Truth contained therein.
