The power of the writer is a transforming power. It is in operation from the day he weaves fables round the play-things of his nursery, and it is the power which vitally penetrates, his world which re-incarnates the raw material of his world. And his world is that small part of creation which he knows, and which, in knowing, he manages to love. Today, as he looks out upon the expanding universe which science has prepared for him, he has to find a centre in himself round which he can wrap his belief in human values. Facing him is a world living numbly, automatically, on the sanitary, progressive, anti-theistic, hence antihuman, thinking of the recent scientific past. It is upon this massproduced, disinfected world that the writer is called to exercise his transforming power. Here, amid the disguised cruelty of routine he must kindle the spark of life. Here, though every day he watches ‘the dwarfing of man’ in the perspective of machinery and light years, he must, no matter what his religion, affirm his faith in the uniqueness of man, ‘heir to all the ages'.