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LOVE, THE KEY

Indeed thou art so deep within my heart,

I fear not Death. And though I die, and fail,

FaUing through stupors, senselessness, oblivion,

Down to the rdots. of being ; still, thou art there.

I sball but sleep, as I hâve slept before,

So oft, in dreamless peace, close-linked with thee.^

CHAPtER X EQUALITY

" To love one's neighbour in the immovable deptlis meana to love in othen that which is etemal ; for one's neighbour, in the truest sensé oi the tenn, is that which approaches the nearest to God ; in other words, ail that is best and parest in man ; and it ia only by ever lingering near the gâtes I tpoke of, that you can discover the divine in the soûl." — BfAXTBRLlNCK, Thê Tfâosufe of thê Humble,

ARGUMENT

Equality does not consisl in satneness, or in uniformity, Men who are unequal in ability, may y et be equaHn service, since of ihis the communitylife requires ail kinds. The true equality lies deeper than this, and arises from the fact that a Whole expresses itself in each part in a particular way. Carpenter defines Equality as a plane of consciousness from which the universal dément is perceived in each individual. The Law of Equality is that in accordance with which a man gives himself lovingly away on ail sides, and by thus sharing the self 'life with each is united with ail, The life of such a man expands in ail directions underneath the outward structure of society, and feeds the roots of other lives ; the expérience, also, becornes strength in him since his own life is deepened

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