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Divine Spirit urging on the movement of human destiny as the study of the ripening and decaying of the different ideals of mankind and of the institutions that embody those ideals. The desire for the amelioration of the conditions of human life comes, so to speak, in gusts, and no one who follows the course of English politics at the present time can doubt that the breeze is now blowing with strength and impelling us onward in our search for that nobler future that allures him whom the squalid present fails to content. All schools that aim at domestic reform feel this; interest is quickened; minds that were asleep are now awake and alert. All reformers—Liberals and Radicals, collectivists and communists, temperance reformers, peace advocates, what you will—are toiling now with hope, while but a short time ago the few enthusiasts seemed to be hammering hopelessly at a blank wall of opposition. A new spirit is abroad in England. We may account for it as we please—as mere weariness of the prolonged government of one party, as due to education, or, as some would say, over-education, as resulting from changed economic conditions, as an awakening of the masses, as a fresh manifestation of the Life Force, to use the latest terms of popular philosophy; but all will agree that the new life, the new spirit is here, and—let us not be afraid of bathos, when the bathos is true—that one of its fruits was the victories of the Liberals at the general election. But that rising sap brings other fruits also to development. In