THE MEANING OF STRUGGLE

real norm of human expérience — namely, that ail world wajrf are and warfare signifies the arrivai of a new quality of consciousness, profounder, wider, potential with invulnérable peace and insuperable j oy ; and this, f rom within the presently tom, bleeding, often weary and heavy-laden human heart.

The daily life of each man and woman, the ever-expected Morrow, the endless self-seeking, the illusive quests (faint not, O faint not !), the bog-floundering after fatuous wisps, the tears, disappointments, and obstinate renewals of hope —

Ail routes and roads and the myriad moving of feet to and fro over the earth, —

What are they but Transparencies of one great fact — symbols of the innumerable paths

By which the soûl retams to Paradise ? ^

It is in terms of this inner ascending consciousness that C arpenter defines Freedom.

I heard the long roar and surge of History, wave after wave — as of the never-ending surf along the immense coast-line of West Africa.

I heard the world-old cry of the down-trodden and outcast; I saw them advancing always to victory.

I saw the red light from the guns of established order and précèdent — the Unes of defence and the bodies of the besi^ers rolling in dust and blood — yet more and ever more behind I

And high over the inmost dtadel I saw magniôcent, and beckoning ever to the besiegers, and the defenders ever inspiring, the cause of ail that never-ending war —

The form of Freedom stand.*

^ r. D., p. 238. « Ibid., p. 238.