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tured to their full extent as conditions for higher 

 action. They will be trained in obedience to a will 

 guided by Intellect, and urged on by Obligation. 

 They will be ready, at any moment, to come into 

 action, at any moment to retreat, to lead in the 

 fight, or to support another division. Then will 

 the man be educated, and then, and not till then, 

 will there be as true a theory in every department 

 of Nature, and of human life, as there is now of the 

 Solar System. Then " men will build states and 

 churches as naturally as caterpillars build webs," 

 and for the same reason that they build them now, 

 because their instincts compel them to the work ; 

 but then they will build them as wisely as caterpillars 

 build webs, because they will be as truly self-guided 

 by the use of the higher powers, as the caterpillar 

 is wisely guided by the lower instinct, that blindly 

 directs, giving knowledge and skill. Happy will 

 be the thousandth generation, if the moral Instincts 

 and Intellect combined, appropriating all the provi- 

 sions that have been made for them, shall approach 

 in their uniform results for man, what the lowest in- 

 stinctive principles to-day, secure for the lowest 

 tribes of creation. 



