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258 SOME ANCIENT AND EXTINCT FAITHS heaven” (ibid, 237 footnote). The sagely man is "the Great Conqueror” (Ibid. p. 385). "Men of the highest spirit-like qualities mount up on the light, and the limitations of the body vanish” (Ibid. p. 324), The human spirit, it is said (Ibid. p. 367), transforms and nourishes all things, and cannot be represented by any form ; its name is "the Divinity (in man)". The Chinese term liere used is Ti, which, according to a footnote of the translator (on p. 367), is regarded as "a very remarkable use of Ti for the human spirit in the sense of God." He to whom profit and injury are not the same is not a superior man (Ibid. p. 239). As to what is the significance of the attainment of the aim:* Complete enjoyment is what is meant by the attainment of
the air ......Now-a-days what is called the 'Attainment of the aim' means the getting of carriages and coronets. But carriages and cororets belong to the body; they de not affect the nature as it is constitutse. When such things bappen to come, it is but for a tiine; being but for a time their coming cannot be obstructed and their going cannot be stopped....... The one of these conditions and the other may equally couduce to our enjoyment, which is simply to be free from anxiety. If now the departure of what ig transient takes away one's enjoyment, this view shows that what enjoyment it had given was worthless. Hence it is said, “They who lose themselves in their pursuit of things, and lose their nature in their study of what is vulgar, 101286 be pronounced people who turn things
apside down ” (Ibid. pp. 372-373). All this is in full harmony with the teaching of tbe. Scientific Religion as we know it now.
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