When the ought is not a mandate from without, it is no longer a prohibition but a self- expression. As the social consciousness develops, ought will be swallowed up in will. We are some time truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of restraints and prohibition. It is ourselves soaked with the highest, not a Puritanical straining to fulfil an external obligation, which will redeem the world. Hence education should be largely the training in making choices.
Man lives in the dawn forever.
Life is beginning and nothing else but beginning. It begins ever- lastingly. We must breed through the group process the kind of man who is not fossilized by habit, but whose eye is intent on the present situation, the present moment, present values, and can decide on the forms which will best express them in the actual world. You cannot hang your ideas up on pegs and take down no. 2 for certain emergencies and no. 4 for others. The test of our morality is whether we are living not to follow but to create ideals, whether we are pouring our life into our visions only to receive it back with its miraculous enhancements for new uses.