The SupremeDuty. 175
growing,threatsarefillingtheair,whenyouset
the ideal which theycopyin theirdesire,and
when you, by the material pleasure of your
lives,tellthem thatman'saim andobjectisbut
the joyof thesense,isbut the pleasureof the
moment? Thisalsoisyourdutyintheservice
of man on a material plane,so that, lessening
the wants of the body, he may learn to feed
the soul,and makingtheouterhfe morenobly
simple may give his energies rather to that
whichispermanent andwhichendures.
But not only on the physical, the lowest
plane,istheserviceofmantobesought. We
rise to the mental plane,and there too must
man be served far more efficaciously than he
canbeservedon thephysical plane. Doyou
say that at least I cannot do service on the
mental plane? That the mental plane is all
very well for the great thinkerthat publishes