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is understood to be systematically progressing in truth and purity. Thus the highest morality and the most charming yet the simplest religion recognise and embrace each other as twin-sisters; and thus a deep self-denying love for God and His world, and not a calculating utilitarianism—"the gospel of enlightened selfishness"—is the basis and the key-stone, the motive-power and the moulding process of the highest morality, the noblest manhood. Let us then offer our hearts to our God and our actions to our neighbours, solely out of pure, disinterested love; resting assured that ours will be a noble heritage that jealousy cannot steal, time cannot exhaust and death cannot usurp.
