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" Our true well-being depends upon right-
thinking and right-feeling and keeping the
soul above those temptations to which the
unguarded mind is liable. And it depends also
upon our capacity to take from Nature around
us all the suggestions of beauty and goodness
it can afford, feeling ourselves to be a part of
the great universe of God and related to all
that is in it, and drawing into ourselves all that
is best in the unseen mighty forces forming
and shaping it and directing it on its eternal
course. This is the wealth, the true well-
being our soul requires/'

. " The socialist makes spasmodic attempts
to free himself from some of the old conven-
tions, but his field is narrow. He approaches
his task from the economic side — and fails.
The approach has to be made from the moral
side in order to succeed — as Islam succeeded
in the earlier period of its history. Each one
of us has this mission to fulfil, and each one
should begin with himself."

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If there is a physical instinct in our nature,
there is also a moral instinct in it, and the high-
est function of the mind is to use it to help and
not retard the evolution of self in such a way as
to bring out the best that is in man. Religion
and philosophy both aim at this, and the heart