---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Tennyson
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 9
number: 7
published: 1906-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Tennyson, "Good, the Final Goal," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 7 (May 1906): 527.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0907unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0907unse
start_page: 527
end_page: 527
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0907unse
  publication_year: 1906
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Good, the Final Goal

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GOOD THE FINAL GOAL. Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last—far off—at last, to all. And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. —Tennyson.