^ !• No inquiries should be more fruitful, both directly
^^ indirectly, than those of sociology. The progress
nien in all directions will ultimately turn on the full
^ favorable development of those powers and princi-
P ^-^ by which they are organized with each other in
"society. The most complete and vivid expression for
^<^ perfection of human life is the Kingdom of Heaven,
t implies that spiritual development in each member of
^e kingdom, and that helpfulness and gracious affection
^^ all members toward each other, which are associated
With the law of love. Nor is this goal of faith less the
goal of social progress. Organization among men means
complete individual power, and ready and affectionate
service. Anything short of this is something less than
the needs, less than the predictions, which lie in the
nature of man, his lines of growth and the favor of God.
Hiis Kingdom of Heaven involves two things, which
stand correlated with each other, individual growth and
collective, organic power; increased functions and in-
creased life overshadowing and using those functions.
Ac ourselves and society, which is greater than our-
limit/ \h '^ P""^^^^^ ^ith commanding power and firm
ar ^t\ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ conditions of development and these

r!.^'^ ^onspicuous terms in the Kingdom of Heaven,
iiuman life romK*

ible, but realW .^^ tendencies seemingly incompat-

f>f orde ivr ^"t^thetic and constructive constituents' ^^^

-Necessity and liberty, foresight and fortuity, W

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