I remarked that, as I had foreseen, we no longer used the word God.
“I use it to myself,” said Ruth.
Henry said: “I use it when I speak to other people; but not here, because we know what we mean, without saying it.”
Marian said: “We have made a vocabulary of our own. Ought we to?”
“Yes,” I said. “Perhaps we can impose it on others?”
“I don’t think that would be fair or right,” she answered.
“Why not? That is just what every great thinker has done. He has imposed a new vocabulary upon the world. Unless our words are good and great and true, they will not last.”
ELEVENTH MEETING
I read Virginia’s paper of two weeks ago:
DISCUSSION ON ART