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objective counterpart. We thus leave the cloister: the City, of our 

 ideal vision, opens before us. We are now out to re-shape the world 

 anew, more near the heart's desire — and hence too often caring little 

 what of the past we shatter. 



Here, then, this supreme chord of life and its resultant in Deed; 

 that is, in fuUest Life. 



ACHIEVEMENT 

 SYNERGY 

 (Etho-) POLITY 



^ EMOTION 



SYNTHESIS 



IMAGINATION 



And here we might next reason out in detail the completed nine- 

 fold series of thought and Deed, perfected as far as life may- 

 allow : — 



For perfection the inward Poesy must ever take form, as Art; but 

 so Philosophy, when it leaves its cloister, as so rarely, may rise to 

 Wisdom: hence not only the tradition of Israel, but the greatest 

 thought of Hellas if not indeed of humanity, has proclaimed that 

 "it will never be good times for the world till the kings are philo- 

 sophers, and the philosophers are kings". India has had its royal 

 sages, its raja-rishis, and in these very days is calling for them again. 

 And thus it was, in the best days of old, that Etho-Polity could caU 

 forth Wisdom and Art, even if not always the central chord with its 

 Synergy and Achievement. 



So true Design (for this is an orderly universe) may achieve 

 Success; and the Career that can synergise is, normally, so far 

 thus justified. 



But no life lasts for ever; no career comes to its full. Every life 

 must end, and before final achievement — at best in the midst of 

 this: and this is Tragedy, when the failure is at levels truly high. 

 And does not its subjective correlative — Symbolism — at once 



