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410 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. KITE.
tive to pain. It was not created for man alone ; and
it is not only precisely what the divine and perfect
wisdom intended, but it is all that a material world,
peopled by beings with material bodies, could by
possibility be. The millennium on this earth is the
real Utopia, fabulous and impossible, of visionary
dreamers. Man is what the Deity meant he should
be—imperfect, feeble, fallible, liable to err, and sensi-
tive to pain, but capable of improvement and pro-
gression, and of a heroism that can smile at agony,
be content with destitution, preserve an equal mind
under the lash of injustice, and without unmanly fear
await the approach of death and count the pulses of
his life. The man who can do this has attained the
equilibrium of faith and reason, and may claim to be
called Magus, Prince, Adept, and Knight of the Hun,