Consider our racial past.

Look at the Piltdown skull: reconstruct the person or creature whose brain that skull contained, and actualize the directions in which his imperious instincts, his vaguely conscious will and desire, were pressing into life.

They too were expressions of Creative Spirit; and there is perfect continuity between his vital impulse and our own.

Now, consider one of the better achievements of civilization; say the life of a University, with its devotion to disinterested learning, its conservation of old beauty and quest of new truth.

Even if we take its lowest common measure, the transfiguration of desire is considerable.