l to
increase and develop, it at the same time safeguards the people against
exploitation by capital, and sees to it that, through this capital, the
people are enabled to live cleaner, better, happier lives, are given an
equal chance in the world, and encouraged and given the opportunity to
live self-respecting lives--lives full not only of responsibility to
themselves, but to humanity at large. That to my mind is the true
socialism--and it is a socialism which could come within the next ten
years, and without any sign of revolution, were the Government to
realise that it is something more than the foster-mother of
capital--that it is also a practical rebuilder of the human race--yes,
even though it has to cut through all the red-tape in the world and
throw the vested interests, owners and employers, on the scrap-heap of
things inimical to human happiness in the bulk. Sometimes I think that
the franchise of women will do a great deal towards this juster world
when it comes. Women have no "political sense," it is said. Well,
thank God they haven't, say I! They have the _human sense_--and that
will be the only political sense of any importance in the world of
to-morrow.

And this war has been the great revelation. Masses of men and women
who never thought before--or, rather, who thought but vaguely, not
troubling to put their thoughts into words--have by war become
articulate. They are now looking for a leader, and upon their faces
there is the expression of disappointment. They do not yet realise
that they have discovered within their own minds and hearts that
Splendid Vision which once came through one, or, at most, a small group
of individuals. This vision is the vision of humanity as apart from
the vision of one special nation. It sees a new world in which
science, the practical knowledge and the material advancement of the
West, combine with the greater peace and happiness of the East, to make
of this world an abiding place, an ideal nearer the ideal of Heaven.
Man, after all, possesses mind. His failure has been that, so far, he
has not learned wisdom--the wisdom to employ that mind for the
realisation of his own soul--that realisation without which life
becomes a mockery and civilisation a sham.

_The Question_

Can a man love two women at the same time? If he be married to one of
them--Yes. If he isn't--well, I cannot imagine it possible. Nor can I
imagine that every man is capable of this