It said that the world was once all perfect and kindly, and that still the kindly and perfect world existed, but buried like a mass of roses under many spadefuls of earth.

We are in the midst of a perfect world of show and glitter.

They ignore the lessons of the past, and assume that a new and perfect world is to be evolved from the depths of consciousness.

But what I admire in you, Cadurcis, is that, with all the faults of youth, of which you will free yourself, your creative power is vigorous, prolific, and complete; your creations rise fast and fair, like perfect worlds.

But Lewin's further remarks dispel that illusion: "In marriage, with us, a perfect world springs up at the word, of tenderness, of fellowship, trust, and self-devotion.

The idea of the world, as symbolically representing God's temple, has been thus beautifully developed in a hymn by N.P. Willis, written for the dedication of a church: "The perfect world by Adam trod Was the first temple built by God; His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Given these a perfect world will eventuate.

Both imply a defect in order, and neither would have any place in a perfect world, which would be without pity, fear, or humour, all of which proceed from incongruities in the scheme.

In the face of such a world, even when partially made intelligible in ideal art, dare we assert that fatalistic optimism which would have it that the universe is in God's eyes a perfect world?