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to the joy of unity, she is overlooking the man's 

 larger good for which unity of consciousness is the 

 first desideratum and as such must be regarded as a 

 duty without question of joy. Apropos is the Chi- 

 nese saying : " The mind through oneness the soul 

 procures." 



The way to a higher morality is manifestly 

 through the community of life coming from the shar- 

 ing of attention ; for love, like attention, can persist 

 only if there be a constant desire of attaining to a 

 yet higher state. When attention has reached this 

 point in its development there will be no " passionate 

 friendships " such as H. G. Wells would have obtain. 

 The joy that we have in another is due to the thought 

 that makes us a part of itself. To be shut out of the 

 consciousness of a loved one is in very truth to be 

 cast into outer darkness. Even the child feels this, 

 and when neglected seeks any method of calling at- 

 tention to himself. What is taken to be jealousy is 

 more often the blind despair of a lost spirit. The 

 impulse for notoriety is the only way the criminal 

 knows of getting into the social consciousness. This 

 need of finite beings for the warmth of an embracing 

 personality has a close connection with the anthropo- 

 morphic conception of the Infinite ; while it may not 

 have given rise to that, it has no doubt much to do 

 with our clinging to the idea of the Fatherhood in the 

 face of scientific knowledge which may be inter- 



