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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: expression both of itself AND of the whole. The human
child at its mother's knee probably comes first to know it
HAS a 'self' on some fateful day when having wandered
afar it goes lost among alien houses and streets or in the
trackless fields. That appalling experience--the sense of
danger, of fear, of loneliness--is never forgotten; it stamps
some new sense of Being upon the childish mind, but that
sense, instead of being destroyed, becomes all the prouder
and more radiant in the hour of return to the mother's arms.
The return, the salvation, for which humanity looks, is
the return of the little individual self to harmony and union
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