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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Man Limitless by Floyd B. Wilson, published in 1905.

Love in one form or another is the motive power of the universe.

It is the force that moves men, women, and nations towards advancement

for the achievement of ambitions, for the fulfillment of ideals.

Love reaches beyond desire and yet awakens desire. It blends intellect with

aspiration, the mental with the spiritual, and gives the incentive to guard and prolong life,

in order that we may grasp more of its hollowed

and mystic meaning.

It is universal and found throughout nature.

We see the plants sending its roots down to secure nourishment, and then, having converted this into sustenance, carry it upward

to assist growth in the sunlight. It reaches, for it needs to give full expression to its

development and beauty, seeming in its own mute way to enjoy itself most when demonstrating

vigorous life. Is not this but a plant's expression of love? Its silent purpose to attain

its own end in the mystery of unfolding? In animal life, we note a broader development,

one that extends to the protecting, caring, and helping of its own kind. It reaches out often

to the weak and suffering through almost a human feeling, and more than that it recognizes the expression

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