s, and should have existed as rival
elements in human nature without the one having by this time triumphed
over the other.

In matters which affect every member of a body similarly, the combined
influence of all those members should be brought to bear; but where
every individual can "be himself" and interpret and use his portion of
the foundation of goodness in the complete way for which he was made
and intended, without affecting others, he should be allowed to
influence them or be influenced by them, without interference on the
part of any other individual. Since this has not been the case, we
have had the continuance of sin, and until it is the case, there always
will be sin.

Now, in the position described, complete individuality is established
and evil ceases to exist and becomes a thing of the past. With the
near prospect of universal destruction, there is immediately a
cessation of progress; and then, as in the incident described, there
comes complete individuality--every individual becomes himself. With a
common destruction inevitable and with the establishment of
individuality, co-operation in its true sense prevails, and with it the
surpassing and disappearance of evil; and then that wonderful happiness
... of all this I am convinced. I remember well the effect for an hour
or so among a few of us that evening. The contrast between the
atmosphere in the little room in which the most impressed of us
gathered during that time, which was free, I know, from everything but
good, and that of a day or two later when we made fun of the whole
affair, is so marked that my opinion on the matter is very definite.

Goodness alone there was at the beginning, and goodness alone there
will be at the end. No man is the cause of his own downfall, but he
alone as an individual can be the maintainer of his foothold.
Individuality in all that concerns the individual, alone can make and
keep life clean and sweet. If this individuality could, by such means
as education, be established, there would be constituted a _uniting_
force through humanity which could lead it, in the course of time, in
the way it should go.

* * * * *

And as He raised the semblance of the Fire from the Universe, He looked
upon Man and saw that he was good.

J. A. A. J.

III

THE DREAM

How much of our life seems and is a dream! How often we feel ourselves
carried off our feet and borne along on a tide of ci