A MAP OF LIFE who do not accept the revelation, even if they have the best will in the world (which not all men have), can neither direct their own lives aright nor help other men — save accidentally and within a very narrow field. From such men the world has little to hope and an immense amount to fear. And into their hands the world is tending more and more to fall. In one word, the reason for their helplessness, both in relation to themselves and in relation to others, is that they do not know what a man is. You do not truly know what anything is until you know what it is for. Knowing what a thing is made of, even knowing whom a thing is made by, these things are but scanty knowledge, impotent of themselves to lead to fruitful action. The complete knowledge demands a knowledge of piupose. A very crude instance may make this sufficiently obvious truth still more obvious. Suppose a man who has never shaved: and sup|>ose that he suddenly discovers a razor. He does not know what it is, but he discovers that it cuts. Whereupon he uses it for cutting wood. He does not cut a great deal of wood and he ruins the razor, leaving it fit only for the scrap-heap. The point is that he has used it without knowing its purpose; and save by accident such use must always be misuse. And in the face of the general proposition that nothing can be used aright until its purpose is known, the man who uses anything at all without such knowledge is acting 12