ÎK PAIN, AN INDEX OP SOCIAL GROWTH

t tained until the new pillars are firmly established

é which shall bear the new structure. Party

i^ antagonisms are real and not fictitious. They

f ocus and represent an actual division, discord,

:^ conflict of interests, in the body politic. But

ti^ they are subtly co-operative towards effective

i ' reconstruction and permanent bettennent. Both

liw acknowledge the necessity of progress, but while

uS the one concentrâtes on the actual making of

i the required changes, the other concentrâtes on

securing the best condition and method of change.

Ail this may be admitted; the deepest fact,

however, is that new structure is demanded by

i a new spirit. It is not enough to see that social

pain is an indication that something is wrong;

it must be recognized also that that which makes

any actual state of things wrong is the uprising,

the upthrust, of a potentially better state of

things conûng on to realization ; the imperfection

of any structure or organisation can only be

detected and condemned by the arising of the

more perf ect thing first as Ûght and feeling and

vision and dream — the substantial adamantine

impalpabilities — in the more sensitive areas of

the consciousness of the community. Wherever

pain exists in a community, its profoundest sig-

niiicance is that, at that point, something is

getting through the outer sheath to quicken

interior forces, propagate inward growth, foster

spiritual developmént, and ultimately to deliver

to itself the soûl of a people.