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decline toward the lower animal orders and, in the end, 

 perish from off the earth. They fail to see the signifi- 

 cance which attaches to the steady growth of the human 

 brain, a growth which separates and distinguishes man- 

 kind from all previous animal orders ; and they ignore or 

 depreciate the grand fact that scientific knowledge, ac- 

 cumulating from generation to generation, is changing 

 the entire course of lower nature in man. That lower 

 course of nature is still their criterion for the future. 



The idea of Natural Salvation as the result and outcome 

 of the evolution of life on the earth is still too novel, too 

 startling, to be accepted without a period of mental incu- 

 bation. It is too subversive of old beliefs to be enter- 

 tained without a struggle against it ; or at best, the new 

 belief must have time to be born and grow up. And 

 there must be further demonstration and a long balancing 

 of the evidence. The incubus of indoctrination is still 

 heavy ; nor will the effort to attain Natural Salvation begin 

 in earnest, until the truth and the facts concerning the 

 "soul" of man are understood and accepted; perhaps 

 not until children are taught the simple facts concerning 

 the course and promise of life on the earth. The effect 

 of two generations of such instruction would be decisive 

 and marvelous. Little can be done till the brains of 

 children are liberated and saved from the prevalent theo- 

 logical untruth as to supernaturalism. As fast as begotten 

 and born the brain of successive generations is now handed 



