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tal ken, after the manner of religions generally. To 

 him who questions this need of a material good as the 

 basis of involution, I instance the phenomenal spread 

 of Christian Science. What with the increase of 

 cosmopolitanism and liberality of thought in mat- 

 ters of religion, the day has long passed for a purely 

 spiritual union. A person who can worship with 

 every belief, worships with none. The God of the 

 involute is ever a jealous God, having no other gods 

 before him, and his people are a chosen people. 



While the ties of race, language and social tradi- 

 tions are strong for the binding of the socius, the 

 ties of a common work are still more impelling. 

 There is an organising quality appertaining thereto 

 not to be found in other mutualities. And furthered 

 as industrial involution is by patriotic sentiment 

 and common legislation, the lines of demarcation for 

 the human aggregate fall naturally along state 

 boundaries. 



But wherefore any segregating at all? The spirit 

 of Christianity is that of a universal brotherhood. 

 Why not one body for all peoples? Debarred from 

 actual knowledge as we are by our position in the 

 life-sequence, we cannot do better than to assume 

 the same personal idealism for that higher level of 

 being as for our own. And once we grant a self- 

 defining consciousness to the State, we have postu- 

 lated a society of beings like unto it ; its reality car- 

 ries theirs. The oneness of a world at peace is not 



