The Socialist will then have his opportunity.
That any member of the community should be in physical want or irremediable misery, will begin to be felt, partly as a personal grief, partly as a reflection on himself, by each member of the community in turn; and steps will begin to be taken--what steps I cannot pretend to forecast--to make physical want and irremediable misery impossible.

Meanwhile, with the gradual substitution of the inward for the outward standard of reality, the mad scramble for wealth and possessions and distinctions will gradually cease, the conception of what constitutes "comfort" and of what are the real "necessaries of life" will be correspondingly changed, and men will begin to realise that of the genuine "good things of life"-- the good things which the children of Utopia carry with them into the world, and which make them exceedingly rich in spite of their apparent poverty--there are enough and more than enough "to go round." _The Religious Aspect of Self-realisation._ The oak-tree is present in embryo in the acorn.

What is it that is present in embryo in the new-born child?
To achieve salvation is to realise one's true self.

But what is one's true self?
The "perfection of manhood" is an obvious answer to this question; but it explains so little that we cannot accept it as final.

We may, however, accept it as a resting-place in our search for the final answer.
It is on the religious aspect of self-realisation that I now propose to dwell.