on purpose but which has made itself because we have not, as a community, exercised our undoubted powers of choice and action in an intelligent and loving way.  Can we justify the peculiar characteristics of Hoxton:  congratulate ourselves on the amount of light, air and beauty which its inhabitants enjoy, the sort of children that are reared in it, as the best we can do towards furthering the racial aim?  It is a monument of stupidity no less than of meanness.  Yet the conception of God which the whole religious experience of growing man presses on us, suggests that both intelligence and love ought to characterize His ideal for human life.  Look then at these, and all the other things of the same kind.  Look at our attitude towards prostitution, at the drink traffic, at the ugliness and injustice of the many institutions which we allow to endure.  Look at them in the Universal Spirit; and then consider, whether a searching corporate repentance is not really the inevitable preliminary of a social and spiritual advance.  All these things have happened because we have as a body consistently fallen below our best possible, lacked courage to incarnate our vision in the political sphere.  Instead, we have, acted on the crowd level, swayed by unsublimated instincts of acquisition, disguised lust, self-preservation, self-assertion, and ignoble fear:  and such a fall-back is the very essence of social sin.

We have made many plans and elevations; but we have not really tried to build Jerusalem either in our own hearts or in “England’s pleasant land.”  Blake thought that the preliminary of such a building up of the harmonious social order must be the building up or harmonizing of men, of each man; and when this essential work was really done, Heaven’s “Countenance Divine” would suddenly declare itself “among the dark Satanic mills."[152] What was wrong with man, and ultimately therefore with society, was the cleavage between his “Spectre” or energetic intelligence, and “Emanation” or loving imagination.  Divided, they only tormented one another.  United, they were the material of divine humanity.  Now the complementary affirmative movement which shall balance and complete true social penitence will be just such a unification and dedication of society’s best energies and noblest ideals, now commonly separated.  The Spectre is attending to economics:  the Emanation is dreaming of Utopia.  We want to see them united, for from this union alone will come the social aspect for surrender.  That is to say, a single-minded, unselfish yielding to those good social impulses which we all feel from time to time, and might take more seriously did, we realize them as the impulsions of holy and creative Spirit pressing us towards novelty, giving us our chance; our small actualization of the universal tendency to the Divine.  As it is, we do feel a little uncomfortable when these stirrings reach us; but commonly console ourselves with the thought that their realization