"Paramhansaji, please come outdoors." Dr. Lewis, on a visit from
Boston, smiled at me pleadingly from outside my window. Soon we
were strolling in the sunshine. My companion pointed to new towers
in process of construction along the edge of the Fellowship property
adjoining the coast highway.
"Sir, I see many improvements here since my last visit." Dr. Lewis
comes twice annually from Boston to Encinitas.
"Yes, Doctor, a project I have long considered is beginning to
take definite form. In these beautiful surroundings I have started
a miniature world colony. Brotherhood is an ideal better understood
by example than precept! A small harmonious group here may inspire
other ideal communities over the earth."
"A splendid idea, sir! The colony will surely be a success if
everyone sincerely does his part!"
"'World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance,
considering himself in the light of a world citizen," I continued.
"A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my
America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will
never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride
will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative
universal currents."
Dr. Lewis and I halted above the lotus pool near the hermitage.
Below us lay the illimitable Pacific.
"These same waters break equally on the coasts of West and East,
in California and China.
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