life gives us, we may declare that, since ' God is Love, love is in very truth, as Swedenborg says, ' the life of man.' If man springs from the divine love, exists for and because of that love, man is to be understood from love if he is to be understood at all. If love in man is the essence of man, the divine purpose in him, his life is not of himself alone but is of or from God, all powers and faculties within him become intelligible in the light of the divine-human love-relation. Man, we may say, is meant to manifest love, to live for love, to lead a life of love. His central ideal should then be to love God and His cosmos of love, to love man and the world of men. But to make love in this fundamental sense the principle of life and thought is constantly to consider how to apply in detail that which is in the most general sense the essence of life. Wherever we begin, the result is the same. It is love itself that prompts us either to reveal or to understand love. To know man better is to know God the more. To consider how God can be Love is to reflect upon the