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emancipation of the black slave was to result in enslaving the whole nation to the money power. It could be no other way. Enlarged perceptions will always find the liberty of yesterday the tyranny of today. Otherwise there were only stagnation and retrogression of the partly unfolded Man to the condition of the animal. The centaur has ever made the best laws and governments he could, but he could never legislate for the coming Man. When that Man comes, then all old conditions will be done away with. Could an old Roman or Scythian, could Briton of Shakespeare's time, or Teuton in the time of Charles V. be placed with us today, he would find the oppression of which we complain, too much freedom, and would begin, like those modern Reverends who would carry us back to the Eighteenth Century Sunday and Marriage Laws, to complain of Twentieth Century License.

Humanity is never to travel crablike, backward. The unfolding Human shell will never retreat into the shell of the past. Liberty is relative, and its demands are always without precedent. "Something Man never had opportunity to do and be," is its cry. Therefore all the various phases of liberty are outward expressions of one desire of the Soul for expression. "I WILL BE MAN!" it cried from the body of the Sphinx, and, pushing himself out still more in his desire from the remnants of ancient conditions, he finds only a still larger demand impelling him on. Such demands presage the coming fullness, when Man shall in Freedom be content. "I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness," "in the liberty of the Son of God."

The liberty of the wisest reformer is but a step of the Coming Man. The ideal is that of Man, having aborted the breast of the sphinx, the body of the