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So that she having only her nearest and dearest to over-come presents her subliminal desire for their frustration, rather as a warning than a condemnation.

When she predicts the poor-house she is endeavouring to crowd them in that direction with her spurious panic off that direction; on the principle of ' The thing that I greatly feared has come upon me.'

### Envy slays.

For the jew whose enemies are all too real, being put out of condition to slay his opponent, although eligible for the slaughter of the enemy of his opponent, it is so useless to envy his rival that he can only out-trip him.

Perhaps it is owing to such circumstantial rigor that the jew is hardly a physical hero.

The test of a man's standard being his ultimate willingness to die for it, our worship of a hero is not regulated by our personal paucity of valour, but is an innate recognition of the negotiable value of her-oism; making his valor somehow a guarantee of his immortality. For we must presume that by so daring he has morally opened a big account with the supernal banker.

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without endangering the whole structure.

And so, by endeavouring to explain away the discrepancies
between Old Testament and New, they had discredited much that
was fundamental to the understanding of both.

Jehovah, they said, was not the mighty creator, ancient of
days, and ruler of the universe, but only little YAHWEH, tribal
god of a small Canaanitish sect, long since perished in the deserts
of Arabia.

Israel, to them, meant the Jews, whose one surviving tribe bore
witness to the long buried past, or else it meant spiritual Israel,
the church.

The Kingdom of God, they declared, was in men's hearts, and
had no relation to political events, past, present or future -
and much else in this strain had so vitiated the meaning of the
Holy Book that men's faith had cooled.

To me, at least, the message was still vital, and I perceived
that the apparent inconsistencies between the older and newer doc-
trines was a matter of major significance to me and to all men.

The Old Testament taught the political history of the Chosen
Race, by whose strength tyrants should be broken, and by whose
example judgment and justice should flourish in the earth. "Thou
art my battle-axe and weapons of war" cries Jeremiah, "with thee
I will break in pieces the nations and with thee I will subdue
kingdoms". There was no suggestion there of appeasement, or even
of much mercy, between Israel and her fierce heathen neighbours,
whom Daniel likened to wild beasts risen from the sea.

It was the task of Israel to establish a world-wide peace -
a sort of glorified Pax Britannica - upon which foundation Chris-
tianity might "blossom" and bud and fill the face of the world with