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in this great order of creation must find in tlie revelation of tliat 

 reason and will by which he is differentiated from all other animals 

 an emanation or inspiration from that higher power which makes 

 for righteousness : 



" High over space and time it rides, 

 The high thought that can never alter." 



Again, we find in the Hebrew myth the origin of the knowledge 

 of good and evil which has been so fearfully misconstrued in the 

 Christian dogma as the fall of man, the first recorded conception 

 of the development of that mental energy by which mankind be- 

 came differentiated from all other animals. We also find in the true 

 rendering of the Greek text of the central precept of Christianity — 

 in which, as I am assured by scholars, the word " agapao " is more 

 correctly construed in English in the word " service," " Thou shalt 

 serve thy neighbor as thyself " — the very principle of modern com- 

 merce by which it lives and moves and has its being, evolving mutual- 

 ity of benefits through the exchange of products. This concept can 

 be traced far back in Leviticus, in the writings of Confucius, and in 

 the records of the Egyptians. 



1 therefore venture to submit to the members of this association 

 the suggestion that true as may be the theory of evolution as it now 

 stands, it is not yet complete. It will remain inadequate until some 

 philosophic observer yet greater than Darwin traces and defines the 

 evolution of the mental or metaphysical forces by which mankind will 

 surely attain its full development and dominion. Until the modern 

 development of science and invention of the nineteenth century had 

 become a part of the common practice and common knowledge of the 

 civilized races, only the prophet or seer could forecast the conditions 

 of peace, order, and mutual service which we have as yet so partially 

 attained. Have we not now a basis for an inductive social science in 

 this development? May we not rest assured or continue our work 

 with full assurance that the humane element in the Divinity which 

 shapes our ends and the divine element in the humanity to which 

 has been given dominion over the forces which make for welfare, will 

 be so combined and harmonized that the time ^vill surely come when 

 all mankind shall be free of what has been rightly named the hell 

 of war? 



Conclusion. — The ultimate suppression of war by the evolution 

 of the forces of commerce may be well assured. War, however neces- 

 sary it may sometimes be, must always remain a survival of brute 

 or unintelligent force. Commerce, however restricted by the lack of 

 intelligence among legislators, is yet an evolution of mental force, by 

 which it is directed and by which it will ultimately dominate brute 



