INTRODUCTION 11 



a good that seeks to raise all men to their highest 

 efficiency. 



Hence, says Miss Williams, if we would do away 

 with this conflict, we must appeal to another law 

 the Law of Involution, the Law that will raise as one 

 whole the vast body of the People. Life must be so 

 organised, so socialised, that each human atom can 

 find its own highest good in the Common Good. 



In brief, men reach an arresting wall in their ego- 

 istic evolution, and they can go no farther on that 

 road. To press onward, they must now accept a new 

 law of progress the Law of Involution. The com- 

 petitive human atoms must now merge into One Atom 

 and go forward as a unit. Competitive multitudes 

 must merge into a Social Solidarity all working 

 for each and each working for all. For only in this 

 way can the race take up a new march of evolution 

 on a higher ground a new march inspired by a 

 new passion, the social passion a new march with 

 a new hope, the inbrothering of man and the inheav- 

 ening of earth. 



But the earth of our narrow vision is too cramped 

 an arena for all the possible adventures of the human 

 spirit. As the cell-life of the lower rounds of crea- 

 tion was included in the genesis of man ; so Miss Wil- 

 liams predicts that man as a psychic being will be 

 included in ever-higher rounds of life because of the 

 eternal involution and evolution. Thus she weaves 

 into one unity the material and spiritual problems 



