Communism is the beginning, and not the culminating state of societies
and peoples. All efforts on this line fail, because they are based
upon the false and impossible premise of the absolute equality of all
men. There never has been, there never can be any such adjustment of
the forces of nature on this planet; because no two souls are alike and
there can only be equality in alikeness. Spirits come here in groups.
They start simultaneously on their pilgrimage across the "sands of
time"; but at the very outset there are obstacles and handicaps
innumerable. At once there is heredity. There is no equality in
heredity. It is good, bad or indifferent as the case may be. But the
great divergence is in the soul itself; it grovels or aspires, and
unfolds its powers according to the laws of its own individual being,
and all men, and women should not be held accountable or judged alike.
It is not just. Communism would seek to suppress all individuality and
reduce everyone to the "dead level" of the commonplace, under the
mistaken idea of universal equality. Gifted persons daring to lift up
their heads above the common ruck of mankind, are at once shoved back
into the narrow groove the heads of the cult have decided to be the
proper rut for human beings to run in.
In this view, persons of ignoble and narrow natures may sit in judgment
upon people of genius and refinement, and may force back the most
aspiring seer into expressionless life by the utter lack of any
comprehension by their dull, selfish fancy. Ye gods! How they exult
in doing it! This trick is played upon sensitive, modest, gifted
people everywhere. Fools set the pace and rule, and those who know the
least of the responsibilities of living are the first to rush forward
and grab them up. Envy and jealousy have it all their own way, and so
it is the world around; everyone is forced to pay a fearful price for
his superiority.
At different times poets and writers, good people of distinction and
philanthropy, weary of the "storm and stress" of life and of invasions
and intolerable "bumptiousness" of the vulgar and indiscriminating,
have tried to secure a place and surroundings where high thinking and
simple living might order their days and secure to them companionship
fit for the gods; but the noblest and best of humanity are not
permitted to go off by themselves in such ways and have a little heaven
on earth all to themselves. This cannot be. They must stand apart
each in their place, out in the world--"in the open"--that they may
each one stand as a beacon light, object lesson, leader, and thus
assist in "leavening the whole lump" of ignorant and unregenerate
humanity.