burdening the soul with the dismal and false conviction "that there is in every man and woman something, which, if you knew it, would make you hate them."*

The remedy must be as deep as the disease. A new centre must be taken. Impulse must go forth toward all spiritual life, with pure affection, under one law. Not till love --- love met and measured everywhere by love --- returns upon itself baffled and empty, is the life that God has given us to be pronounced a failure. An attainable blessedness is sufficient for the brave and faithful spirit.

What are the bearings of these social facts upon the proof' of the being of God? Simply this. Every stage of development has been so ordered that it leads to and must be supplemented by a true spiritual development. Failing of this, the whole movement becomes increasingly futile. This then is the cardinal fact of the world, and one which discloses its original bent, its source in righteousness, and its ministration to righteousness. As the law of love comes to be the uppermost law in life, life advances to its own good, and begins to take in harmoniously and successfully the grace and the wealth of the secondary spiritual laws- of beauty and truth. It is thus crowded full, like a vine well-laden with fragrant clusters, with the fruits both of physical and intellectual culture.

§ 6. An unfolding that must keep pace with this moral unfolding, and in its highest forms be the very fountain of its strength, is religious development. We shall never actually reach spiritual fulness under

* Ibid., p. 232.