dissipation
of this atmosphere, one is not quite sure that the outline of his soul
would not follow the severe lines of a High Anglican tradition. He does
not, at present, convince one of original force.

Yet, when all doubts are expressed, he remains one of the chief hopes of
the Church, and so perhaps of the nation. For from his boyhood up the
Kingdom of God has meant to him a condition here upon earth in which the
soul of man, free from all oppression, can reach gladly up towards the
heights of spiritual development.

He hates in his soul the miserable state to which a conscienceless
industrialism has brought the daily life of mankind. He lays it down
that "it is the duty of the Church to make an altogether new effort to
realise and apply to all the relations of life its own positive ideal of
brotherhood and fellowship." To this end he has brought about an
important council of masters and men who are investigating with great
thoroughness the whole economic problem, so thoroughly that the Bishop
will not receive their report, I understand, till 1923--a report which
may make history.

As a member of the Society of Spirits, he says, "I have a particular
destiny to fulfil." He is a moral being, conscious of his dependence on
other men. He traces the historic growth of the moral judgment:

The growth of morality is twofold. It is partly a growth in
content, from negative to positive. It is partly a growth in
extent, from tribal to universal. And in both of these forms of
growth it is accompanied, and as a rule, though my knowledge would
not entitle me to say always, it is also conditioned by a parallel
development in religious conviction.

We are all aware that early morality is mainly negative; it is the
ruling out of certain ways of arriving at the human ideal, however
that is to be defined, which have been attempted and have been
found failures. Whatever else may be the way to reach the end,
murder is not, theft is not, and so on. Thus we get the Second
Table of the Decalogue, where morality commits itself to
prohibitions--this is not the way, that is not the way; then
gradually, under the pressure of experience, there begins to emerge
the conception of the end which makes all this prohibition
necessary, and which these methods when they were attempted failed
to reach.

And so we come at last to "the Kingdom of God as proclaimed