6 Evolution of Life and Form. 



developing forms. I begin by laying before you a 

 sketch of the methods of "Ancient and Modern 

 Science," the direction in which each has worked, 

 and is working, the ultimate union that, we hope, 

 may take place between them. For what could more 

 fully presage the good of the whole world, what 

 could promise more happily for the relationship 

 between the different races of humanity, than to draw 

 together on the plane of mind the science of antiquity 

 and of modern days, the science of the East and of 

 the West, and, by wedding them to each other, draw 

 together the nations that are now divided, and make 

 objective that brotherhood of humanity of which we 

 dream. 



Dealing first with ancient and modern science in 

 this broad and general way, and taking that as my 

 subject for this morning, I shall pass on to-morrow 

 to speak on the " Functions of the Gods," meaning 

 by that phrase the activities of that invisible side of 

 nature on which the whole of the visible depends. 

 Whether we use here the name " Devas " to represent 

 those developed spiritual intelligences, or whether 

 with the child of Islam, with the Hebrew or the Chris- 

 tian, we speak of the " Angels " and " Archangels," 

 the name matters nothing; the conception is common 

 to every faith of man. We shall study their func- 

 tions in the universe, and try to understand how they 



