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which is desired will be determined by experience. Till desire is awakened, man does not know that he is not free. Desire is the recognition in consciousness, that the soul is sufficiently unfolded to press against present conditions. The limitations must give way, when the soul has pushed long enough as bud pushes into bloom, soul pushes through what we term pain, slavery, sorrow and strife till it awakens to consciousness of power, to will, to be and to do; then all limitations give way and we say "Free!" Desire through necessity leads to action. Necessity is the mother not only of invention, but also of liberty. When man will not endure he will cure.

But what has thus ever limited the Soul? Nothing. What causes desire ? The soul's necessity of expression. Only through expression can it be itself. Not to unfold—not to express—would be to annihilate itself. To be, it must unfold. Desire is the sub consciousness coming into conscious activity.

Freedom is but the expression of a new desire. The cry for more liberty demonstrates the truth of the development theory, of the philosophy of evolution, and is Man's warrant of immortality. This cry finds utterance alone in the Human Soul, and is its demand to be freed from animal limitations.

Only as we think of Man as emerging from the bodies of sphinx, centaur and satyr can we understand this "Cry of the Human," which is not the cry Mrs. Browning so beautifully voiced, "Be Pitiful, 0 God!" but is the cry, "Give me Freedom from conditions!" This cry man has ever made. It comprises all his desires it inspires his every effort. The history of the race is but the history of the foetal Man freeing himself from the animal matrix. From earliest primitive ancestor to the latest mental scientist there has been only a struggle for this second, this spiritual birth, when the Soul shall become aware