But there is a divinely inspired potentiality for creative expression within each one of us that the world needs and is awaiting. Jesus saw the divinity in people, and He challenged all men to see the good, the God-self, in all people with whom they associated. This is obviously what Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, has in mind when he talks about seeing a clerk behind the counter or a common laborer in the mines and looking upon him as a Lincoln or a Beethoven in the making. He feels that the man may possess the potentialities of a transfigured genius or saint, a martyr or a hero, a
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