A NEW PERSPECTIVE

ever gives a hint of its présence), bearing the pressure, often baffled, waiting, lifting, worldng, slowly and by nnknown ways redeeming.

And, if it be true that power develops under résistance, maybe the heavier the résistance over which the love-power ultimatdy triumphs, the higher and more perfect its development. The brightest radiance and the most glorious strength of the final love-kingdom may arise from just that place where, amid the most intractable material, in the blind and tragic depths of the soûl of a " crazy sot," the love-Ufe sufîered and endured.

A thought like this suddenly changes the whole point of view, and disorganizes the received table of values. It puts the " world's coarse thumb and finger ** out of joint. Familiar démarcations vsmish, established class-divisions lose their usual definiteness of outline; old boundaries begin to fade away, and rough-and-ready moral distinctions grow faint. It is as when, having placed some object near to the eye and looked directly at it, one retains it in that position, keeps it in the field of vision, but focusses the sight at a point beyond it ; so, still keeping individuals before us, but concentrating attention on some point behind and beyond them, looking through and past them to the " région of Equality," how difierently they appear, how their sharp outlines seem to break down somewhat and fringe away into the equal background, how their outward-