What pleasure can we have To war with evil?
Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ?" An effortless existence would be the existence of such as these fabled Lotus Eaters--moreover, it was not possible it could go on, since all Nature shows effort without cessation.

Roger Seaton knew this as all know it--but his soul's demand remained unsatisfied, for he sought to know the CAUSE of all the toil and trouble,--the "why" it should be.
And at the back of his mind there was ever a teasing reminder of Morgana and her strange theories, some of which she had half imparted to him when their friendship had first begun.

For her Tennyson's line--"Death is the end of life"-- would be the statement of a foolish fallacy, as she held that there is no such thing as death, only failure to adapt the spirit to advancing and higher change in its physical organisation.

To-day he remembered with curious clearness what she had said on this subject-- "Radio-activity is the chief secret of life.

It is for us to learn how to absorb it into our systems as we grow,--to add by its means to our supplies of vitality and energy.