T H E E N D C O M M U N E

i never found two people to be perfectly equal;
neither in the eyes of myself nor in the eyes of the world;
God may see it so that we are honestly and really equal -
that, when the day comes, we be measured by the same rod,
and judged in accord with consistent principals
of existential, moral and spiritual law;
but that is the work of the Divine tribunal,
and I shall leave it up to God to show that never do God do mock trials;
for I believe that God believes that Justice is Divine.

but neither I nor the world, nor any other individual,
can properly and plausibly inculcate
the equality of men as some natural or moral law,
and when she does, she tells a lie;
only in the tribunals of Heaven are we pure;
only in the tribunals of Heaven will character, and character alone,
be on trial;
down here, nothing is equal and everything matters.
because down here we are more than souls,
and down here, the world is constituent of more parts
than merely the spiritual -