INTRUSION OP CIVILIZATION

vîrtnes become vices; vie»— for example, posa^ng thiogs apart from the whole— become virtues. Classes begîntodifferentiatethemselves; thcre are rich and poor, masters and men, capital and labour. The community finds itself not merdy in ferment, but at war within itself.

But now progiess b^ins. Latent talents are disdosed; new enterprises, making larger demands on the powers both of brain and heart, areoriginated; the capadty f or initiating, f or cre^ ating. bnds ont everywhere ; the sensé of power increases in the présence of an unaccustomed résistance ; the horizon widens ; depths are disdosed; new ideals rise like unfamiliar stars ; the

old men see visions, the yoong men dream dreams ; a sait taste cornes into the waters of lif e. With the new eff<at cornes a new consciousness ; and beneath the clash of interests a prof oimder unity bçgins to show faintly.

Even factoal histoiy is S3mabolic ; and if the nomadic homogeneons tribe is to become a heterogeneons nation compact tpgether, the route lies throngh Egypt and the Wildemess.

There are modem prophets who proclaim communism as the only true goal of social ref orm movemaat : they hâve the facts on their side ; if, and when, this communism arrives, it will be as différent in structure and in content from the primitive form as the New Jérusalem is from the Garden of Eden; and not only différent, but hîgher, since the intermediate expérience— which