Excerpt from The Art of Living Able. Both are eternal. Only the loveless and the un loved do not wish to live. Man is the battling-ground of two great kingdoms 'of life, the animal and the spiritual. To the vegetable and animal kingdoms of life, Christianity adds another, the spiritual kingdom. This new dispensation brings higher life to man. And like John the Baptist, though, as Christ said, none born of woman in the old kingdom was greater than he, yet the least in the new kingdom was greater. So all along this line of life the least in every higher kingdom is greater than the greatest in the lower. Many are the seeming leaps and bounds in the progress of man; but in all his age-long development, to me the most marvel lous moment is when God breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul a conscious, act ing being. If you wish, you may watch this germ until it is quickened into divinest energy, and man becomes a new creature. Then, may we not add to our kingdoms of life another, the celestial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.