824 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



strengthen the appropriate inhibitory nervous impulses for 

 such; and to lead out, strengthen, hereditarily impress, those 

 synthetic or constructive tendencies by precept and action 

 that shall strengthen the motor nerves to noblest impulses. 



So, in the four-fold nature of man's constitution; in the 

 balanced use of the afferent sensory, the inhibitory, and the 

 motor nerves, as a result of a wise system of education; in 

 the gradual elimination of lines of disintegrating energy-flow 

 and the supplanting of these by lines of constructive and as- 

 piring energy -flow along appropriate constitutive pathways; 

 in the slow but sure evolution thereby of more elevated races 

 of mankind; there is exact and surest hope for the rapid evo- 

 lution of humanity, to a stage that even Bellamy in his most 

 "inspired" moments did not dare to picture. 



For the accomplishment of this result three fundamental 

 requirements are necessary. First, that each and all should 

 be energized by a steady flow of spiritic love; second, that 

 highest types of trained manhood and womanhood be selected 

 to frame best rules of conduct; third, that equally wise teachers, 

 who represent the best and most perfectly equipped minds 

 in each community, be placed in charge of the young, who 

 shall also have careful home training and parental influence. 



The nation that first reaches to such a proenvironal degree 

 of advance is the nation that soonest will lead the van of the 

 world's progress. Switzerland, the United States, Holland, 

 Britain, France, Sweden, Germany, and Japan all possess 

 the beginning possibilities. Will any one of them win the 

 prize of national evolution, or will it go to some other and 

 possibly oriental proenvironer and competitor? 



Finally if at the close of each human life it can truly be 

 said that he or she had lived a satisfying and satisfied exis- 

 tence, with an unaccomplished remnant of aspiring ideal left 

 for the future, then such a life has nobly fulfilled its life destiny. 

 Then such senseless inquiries as: "Are you saved," "Have 

 you found the Lord," "What is your hope of Heaven," will 

 be entirely superfluous, for such a well-spent life is the best 

 answer to all inquiries regarding the future. 



