THE WHOLE INDWELLS THE PART

thc pcHnt o£ vicw o£ the Whole ; and this, not simidy becanse (as Browning saw) the fulfilment of the jdan of the Whole requires the functioning of eadi part in its place, bat because the natural neœssary effort and expression of each individual is the Whole itsdf fonctioning in him in a particolar way.

It is ttds latter, and profoonder, idea which provides the feehng- and the thought-content in Carpenter's conception of Equality. It is consdoQsness within the first Unity — the organic manbership of individnals in the community ; it alises when the individnal, detaching himself and withdiawing scMnewhat from the surface planes of intense self-consciousness, escaping in this fashion the bonndaries of self-hood which define his position and character in the outer world, awakes to find himself in that spiritual continuiim which evoywhere underlies the structure of sodety, "swinuning," as Carpenter graphically expresses it, '* in the Océan of Equality/' and becomes aware of his indissoluble^ real, necessary union at those depths with ail.

This consdousness in the first Unity, attained as an actual expérience perhaps only fitfully and fleetingly, nevertheless détermines the practice of life towards the formation of a peculiarly sympathetic, friendly , understanding, loving habit and attitude in respect of others. In a marginal note on some manuscript belonging to the présent writer, Carpenter has described Equality as ' ' another