CHAPTER IV.

TRANSMUTATION OF EVIL.

HERE comes in the sixth principle of life, Transmutation. Fermentation is full of purpose. It disintegrates the useless and makes it ready for transmutation to higher forms. Out of the fermenting swamp rises the lily. Out of hard experience and suffering comes wisdom. Out of disappointed personal love comes universal love and world-helping.

Whitman’s heart fermented, disintegrated, nearly broke, over, an unrequited love; by and by he saw that love is for the lover and the world; and out of it all came forth his immortal poems. Every great man and woman has paralleled Whitman’s experience.

The lesser love ferments and out of

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