women should not be held accountable or judged alike.  It is not just.  Communism would seek to suppress all individuality and reduce everyone to the “dead level” of the commonplace, under the mistaken idea of universal equality.  Gifted persons daring to lift up their heads above the common ruck of mankind, are at once shoved back into the narrow groove the heads of the cult have decided to be the proper rut for human beings to run in.

In this view, persons of ignoble and narrow natures may sit in judgment upon people of genius and refinement, and may force back the most aspiring seer into expressionless life by the utter lack of any comprehension by their dull, selfish fancy.  Ye gods!  How they exult in doing it!  This trick is played upon sensitive, modest, gifted people everywhere.  Fools set the pace and rule, and those who know the least of the responsibilities of living are the first to rush forward and grab them up.  Envy and jealousy have it all their own way, and so it is the world around; everyone is forced to pay a fearful price for his superiority.

At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and philanthropy, weary of the “storm and stress” of life and of invasions and intolerable “bumptiousness” of the vulgar and indiscriminating, have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven on earth all to themselves.  This cannot be.  They must stand apart each in their place, out in the world—­“in the open”—­that they may each one stand as a beacon light, object lesson, leader, and thus assist in “leavening the whole lump” of ignorant and unregenerate humanity.

HAPPINESS.

Happiness is the final achievement of the human soul.  Perfect happiness can only come as the result of absolute at-one-ment with God, the divine will, and in this conforming there is no loss of personality, or of individuality; it only rounds out the soul into its godlike completeness.  It is unimaginable that there should come loss of any attribute of the soul on its way up to the rendez-vous with its Parent, God.  Rather, that its powers should increase in every possible direction with use, in conformity with divine law.  This is the only true happiness.

The ideals of happiness cherished by men take in an immensely wide range, and bring into action all the peculiar attributes of the composite natures of man.  The brutal instinct cries out:  “Kill! kill!” Bloodsheding is its ravishing delight.  When it arrives at a point where it may not destroy its fellows, the whole created animal kingdom—­including woman—­is its prey.  Wars and rumors of wars will never cease on this planet until humanity at large develops out of this grade which expects to find happiness in the exercise of its very lowest, primitive instincts.