422 Mr. Stephen Graham on The Russian Idea [April 16, 



wish personal destinies to be unravelled and straightened out by the 

 State, standardized and guaranteed by the State. He will not reduce 

 the chess of life to the draughts of life. A religious belief in pure 

 democracy : no belief in Socialism. 



Instead of a belief in the Future, belief in an eternal Present. 



Instead of life understood as a march, life understood as a ballet. 



Instead of life understood as Evolution, life understood as a 

 marvellous phantasmagoria. 



Instead of Time understood as a passage or corridor, Time as a 

 labyrinth. 



Instead of the world-ideal of garden cities and carefully planned 

 parks and squares, a belief in the maze of the world. 



Instead of a belief in the coming of universal peace, a belief in 

 the recurrence of wars. No belief in the " making virtuous of the 

 world and all people." 



No belief in any explanation as sufficient. 



No prejudice against impossibilities ; a cheerful acceptance of 

 miracles, infractions of the " laws of Nature," of the significance of 

 dreams and visions, of the design of destiny hidden in apparent 

 accident ; a predisposition towards superstition. 



A belief that in apparent failure lies a truer destiny than in 

 apparent success. 



A saying " yes " to the mysteries of the Birth, Crucifixion, and 

 Resurrection of Christ. The West would take down Christ from the 

 Cross, heal His wounds, and save Him. The East would not do that. 

 Slie knows that she must crucify Him. 



[S. G.] 



