wanting to level all finite things, but the being willing to be
leveled towards the infinite? Until humility produces that frame
of mind and spirit in the artist can his audience gain the
greatest kind of utility and inspiration, which might be quite
invisible at first? Emerson realizes the value of "the many,"--
that the law of averages has a divine source. He recognizes the
various life-values in reality--not by reason of their closeness
or remoteness, but because he sympathizes with men who live them,
and the majority do. "The private store of reason is not great--
would that there were a public store for man," cries Pascal, but
there is, says Emerson, it is the universal mind, an institution
congenital with the common or over-soul. Pascal is discouraged,
for he lets himself be influenced by surface political and
religious history which shows the struggle of the group, led by
an individual, rather than that of the individual led by himself
--a struggle as much privately caused as privately led. The main-
path of all social progress has been spiritual rather than
intellectual in character, but the many bypaths of individual-
materialism, though never obliterating the highway, have dimmed
its outlines and caused travelers to confuse the colors along the
road. A more natural way of freeing the congestion in the
benefits of material progress will make it less difficult for the
majority to recognize the true relation between the important
spiritual and religious values and the less important
intellectual and economic values. As the action of the intellect
and universal mind becomes more and more identical, the clearer
will the relation of all values become. But for physical reasons,
the group has had to depend upon the individual as leaders, and
the leaders with few exceptions restrained the universal mind--
they trusted to the "private store," but now, thanks to the