World Purpose and Life Purpose 179process of thinking as purely spiritual. If the concept of
purpose is rejected here even in relation to thespiritual
world lying outside human action, it is because in that
world something is revealed that is higher than the kind
of purpose that could be realized in humanity. And if I say
that the thought of a purposeful destiny for the human
race, conceived on the pattern of human purposefulness,
is false, I mean that individual humans set themselves
purposes, and the outcome of the total activity of human-
ity is composed from these. This outcome is then some-
thinghigher than the purposes of individual humans that
are its parts.