25/51 If souls are united love is obviously impossible. A man may be said loosely to love himself, but he can hardly fall in love with himself, or, if he does, it must be a monotonous courtship. If the world is full of real selves, they can be really unselfish selves. But upon Mrs.Besant's principle the whole cosmos is only one enormously selfish person. And it is just here that Christianity is on the side of humanity and liberty and love. |