We are told in the New Testament that we are all members one of another.

If society has a soul and if every member of it has a soul, what is the relation of the social soul to the individual soul?

A man’s soul is the faculty in him for seeing the Whole in relation to the part—­his vision for others in relation to his vision for himself.

My forefinger’s soul in writing with this fountain pen is the sense my forefinger has of its relation to my arm, my spinal column, and my brain.  The ability and efficiency of my forefinger depends upon its soul, that is, its sense of relation to the other members of the body.  If my forefinger tries to act like a brain all by itself, as it sometimes does, nobody reads my writing.

The government in a society is the soul of all the members and it treats them according to their souls.

The one compulsion a government will use if it has a soul, will be granting charters in business in such a way as to fix definite responsibility and definite publicity upon a few men.

If a corporation has a soul, it must show.  It must have a face.  Anybody can tell a face off-hand or while going by.  Anybody can keep track of a corporation if it has a face.

The trouble with the average corporation is that all that anybody can see is its stomach.  Even this is anonymous.

Whose Stomach is it?  Who is responsible for it?  If we hit it, whom will we hit?  Let the government find out.  If the time the government is now spending in making impossibly minute laws for impossibly minute men, were spent in finding out what size men were, and who they were and then giving them just as many rights from the people, as they are the right kind and the right size to handle for the people, it would be an American government.

If there is one thing rather than another that an American or an Englishman loves, it is asserting himself or expressing his character in what he does.  The typical dominating Englishman or American is not as successful as a Frenchman or as an Italian in expressing other things, as he is in expressing his character.

He cares more about expressing his character and asserting it.  If he is dealing with things, he makes them take the stamp of who he is.  If he is dealing with people, he makes them see and acknowledge who he is.  They must take in the facts about what he is like when they are with him.  They must deal with him as he is.

This trait may have its disadvantages, but if an Englishman or an American is on this earth for anything, this is what he is for—­to express his character in what he does—­in strong, vigorous, manly lines draw a portrait of himself and show what he is like in what he does.  This may be called on both sides of the sea to-day as we stand front to front with the more graceful nations, Anglo-Saxon Art.

It is because this particular art in the present crisis of human nature on this planet is the desperate, the almost reckless need of a world that the other nations of the world with all their dislike of us and their superiorities to us, with all our ugliness and heaviness and our galumphing in the arts, have been compelled in this huge, modern thicket of machines and crowds to give us the lead.