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THE TRIANGLE OF LOVE. 143 and become concretised-for what is in the inside presses on to come to the outside. This perennially dominant influence of the ideal is the one force, the one motive power, that may be seen to be constantly working in the midst of mankind. It may be after hundreds of births, after struggling through thousands of years, that man finds out that it is in vain to try to make the inner ideal mould completely the external conditions and square well with them—and after realising this he no more tries to project his own ideal on the outside world, but worships the ideal itself as ideal, from the highest standpoint of love.
This ideally perfect ideal embraces all lower ideals. Every one admits the truth of the saying that a lover sees Helen's beauty on an Ethiop's brow. The man who is standing aside is a looker-on, sees that love is here misplaced. But the lover sees his Helen all the same, and does not see the
