THE BOD Y AS THE VISIBLE RACE-MIND

a&d sacred places of the body. Every orgaa and centre of the body is the seat ci some great émotion» irbkh in its proper activity and due proportion is tmiy divine. It is throngh this bodily and physiological centre that the émotion, the enthnsiaam, that portion cl the Divine Being, expresses itsdf ; and in the pore and periect body that expression, that activity, is itself a révélation. The total physiology of Bfan is, or shonld be, the nearest ^pression of divinity complète, and the replica or image of the physiology of the Cosmos ttself .^

With outlook no less positive, optimistic, natural, does Carpenter view the fact of physical death— of the other form of death, the death to self, we shall hâve to deal in another place.* He lays the andent ghost. Death is the friend» the ' ' far-infolder." It is the angd of deliverance.

Hère in this prison-cell while the walls grow thicker — of ail I was a little spark waits yet its libération.

Corne quickly, Death, and loose this last remaander of me — shatter the walls.

Break down this body of mine, and let me go.'

In one of his finest poems, he reminds us of the fact — obvious enough to ail who will reflect a Uttle — that while we are chiidren we do not possess our childhood ; it is only our later Ufe which gives us possession of it, It is when we leave it behind that we really hold it.

Now, leaving it ail,

The window tmly for yon ^ivill never stand open again,

s Vide The Drama of Lave and Death.