intellectual impulses of a broader range. (2) The desires, the product of an enlarged horizon, take up this work of social combination, and give it great extension. The range of powers and feelings in the individual is enlarged to the measure of this social world to which he belongs. (3) These impulses, in turn, reach a point beyond which they cannot go, and from which they must give place to spiritually constructive powers if the development is to proceed.

The spiritual law of a true spiritual life was long since laid down. The law commends itself to the thoughts of men, but has not established itself as a living, controlling sentiment. There is always much hesitancy in passing from one group of impulses to another, as from those which govern barbarous life to those which govern civilized life. Such changes involve not simply individual convictions but a reconstruction of communities and nations. This law of society by which alone it can take on new force and forms, is the second commandment, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Under this law conflict ceases, the life of each is enlarged by the life of all, powers and possessions are no longer selfishly appropriated. Society becomes one in its blessings and enjoyments, and that by the clear light and inner freedom of its own convictions. The impulses of life cease to set inward under self-interest, but turn outward toward the general interest, toward the thing highest and best. The mind thus escapes the bickerings of conflict, the narrowing, backward flow on its own interests of its largest