Not any, for that is a contradiction in terms, I said; but surely you conceive of it for souls in heaven? MARGARET said something about the Gospel injunction to be perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect. Does not “even as” mean “after the pattern of”? Does it involve the _nature_, as well as the _degree_? EMERSON interrupted quickly, “We are not finite.” Everybody smiled; but the best answer to this is found in the fact, that we never conceive of ourselves as infinite and at rest,—only as reaching after the Infinite in our motion. WHITE said to Caroline Sturgis, “If evil brings knowledge of good, is it not a gain?” WILLIAM STORY talked nobly, something to this effect: That good and evil were related terms. If both did not exist, neither could, antagonism being the spring of most things in the universe. MARGARET went back to Cupid, and said that in Raphael’s original studies Cupid was always a boy,—in his frescos, a youth, almost a man. She spoke of the difference of expression which he gave to his Venus and his Psyche, especially in the eye. That of Psyche was deep and thoughtful. The distinction extended to their attendant Cupids, and was most marked in the Psyche when she takes the cup of Immortality from her husband. MARGARET wanted to pass on to Diana, but there were too many clergymen in the company. Everybody was interested in somebody nearer at hand, and views of the unchanging Providence were next presented. MARGARET said God was the background against which all creation was thrown. WILLIAM STORY asked if she did not think He was greater than his creatures? “Always beyond,” was MARGARET’S reply. Creation, STORY said, was rather the exponent of a _Love_ which _must bless_, than of an activity which must act. It was a Paternal power that _ruled_, not an autocratic power which _fathered_ us. MARGARET said that the story of Cupid and Psyche was the story of redemption. It contained the seeds of the doctrine of election,—saving by grace, and so on! A good many queer things were said on various points touched by this. EMERSON said, that to imagine it possible to fall was to _begin_ to fall. E. P. P. got into a little maze trying to introduce Margaret and R. W. E. to each other,—a consummation which, however devoutly to be wished, will never happen! JAMES CLARKE told her that she was just where Paul was when he said, “What then? Shall I sin, that Grace may the more abound?” EMERSON said the woodlands could tell us most about Diana, about whom we contrived to say very little. The omission of orgies in her worship was dwelt upon. Her pure and sacred character with the Athenians was compared to that of the Diana of Ephesus, whose orgies were not unusual, and who was considered as a bountiful mother rather than as a virgin huntress. IDA RUSSELL said that _her_ Mythology accused Diana of being the mother of fifty sons and fifty daughters! MARGARET laughed, and said that certainly was Diana of Ephesus!