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act as the ministers of the Divine Will. Then we 

 shall pass on to treat of that " Evolution of L,ife" 

 which lies underneath the evolution of forms. 

 Finally, we shall treat the " Evolution of Forms," 

 and see how, in that evolution, is the promise of 

 final perfection, how all is working to a perfect 

 ending, how the best that we can dream of is less 

 than the performance of God. 



That is the outline of our work. Let us at once 

 begin the first section of the subject Ancient and 

 Modern Science. 



Now, in the olden times, in those times to which 

 in this land our thought turns back most fondly 

 with reverence and with pride, in those times, here, 

 as in every other ancient land, Religion and Science 

 were wedded together, and there was no discord 

 between the intelligence and the spirit. It matters 

 not whither you wander amid the ancient nations 

 of the world : you may travel through the whole of 

 Chaldea ; you may study the remains of ancient 

 Egypt; you may go through Persia and search 

 amid her monuments ; you may cross the Atlantic 

 to America, and unbury the cities that were lost ere 

 yet the Aztecs had made the mighty State which 

 fell under the blows of the Spaniards ; you may go 

 into China and, in the vast recesses of that well- 

 nigh unknown land, you may search for what has 



