the Law of our own Being and so learn to specialise it in the right direction. Then if this be our place in the Universal Order, it becomes clear that we could not occupy this place unless we had a perfectly free hand to choose the conditions under which the Law id to operate; and therefore, in order to pass beyond the limits of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms and reach the status of being Persons and not things, we must have a freedom of selection and volition which makes it equally possible for us to select either rightly or wrongly; and the purpose of sound teaching is to make us see the eternal principles involved and thus lead us to impress our Personality upon the Law in the way that will bring out the infinite possibilities of good which the Law, rightly employed, contains.

If it were possible to do this by an automatic Law, doubtless the Creative Wisdom would have made us so. This is why St Paul says: "If there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law" (Gal. 3:21). Note the words, "a law given" --- that is to say, imposed by external command; but it could not be. The laws of the Universe are Cosmic. In