The Socialist position sufficed on the economic side, but where to gain the inspiration, the motive, which should lead to the realisation of the Brotherhood of Man?
Our efforts to really organise bands of unselfish workers had failed.

Much indeed had been done, but there was not a real movement of self-sacrificing devotion, in which men worked for Love's sake only, and asked but to give, not to take.

Where was the material for the nobler Social Order, where the hewn stones for the building of the Temple of Man?
A great despair would oppress me as I sought for such a movement and found it not.
[Illustration: MEMBERS OF THE MATCHMAKERS' UNION.] Not only so; but since 1886 there had been slowly growing up a conviction that my philosophy was not sufficient; that life and mind were other than, more than, I had dreamed.

Psychology was advancing with rapid strides; hypnotic experiments were revealing unlooked-for complexities in human consciousness, strange riddles of multiplex personalities, and, most startling of all, vivid intensities of mental action when the brain, that should be the generator of thought, was reduced to a comatose state.

Fact after fact came hurtling in upon me, demanding explanation I was incompetent to give.