Modern Review June 1913

Now as touching the question of the growth of individual liberty and of the diintegration of the old social order both of which are bound to result from the spread of the belief in Democracy what develoments and what new demands are likely to be made as the outcome of such growth? [...] Thus the real significance of the coming of Democracy lies in the fact that it stands for the freeing and the affirmation of the individual; of reason ; for the highest cuture of the spirit ; necessarily so seeing that it is the outcome of the conviction that only in self-conscious self-determined conduct can real well-being be found. [...] Democracy is the outcome of a belief in man in freedom and has for its object the culture of the whole man the fullest development of every part of the soul ; thus it rests on the belief that the purpose of existence is not merely to function to work to spend and be spent but to realise life to do good thingsTHE NEED OF A SCIENCE OF MORALS 6o3 knowing them to be good to be the condtion o [...] is towards the moral emancipation of the individual the freeing of the indivdual from the moral over-lordship of external authority and second that the very fact of the existence of the moral law proves that there must be such a thing as a best or ideal life it follows that one of the profoundest needs of the present time is for the training of the men and women yea and of the youths and m [...] the gift of God-consciousness of religious insight of spiritual penetration of realiztion of the greatness the nearness the solidity the permanence the infinitely rich contents and the supreme worth of the world of the unseen that world which ifinitely transcends the world of matter and which we enter only through the mystical and wonderful gates of the soul.