22 Evolution of Life and Form. 



this problem belongs to the Fifth race, and the 

 Western world is at present peopled largely by the 

 fifth sub-race of the great Fifth. Thus it takes to 

 the very highest point the concrete mind of man, 

 that marvellous activity of the intellect, that swift 

 and yet patient study, bringing about the achieve- 

 ments that modern science is performing. All 

 these are a testimony of the truth of the ancient 

 teaching that sub-race after sub-race arises, each one 

 with its own work to do, and we should look on 

 the work of each sub-division of humanity as good 

 in itself: each should not be regarded as an 

 isolated and hostile expression, but as part of the 

 Divine manifestation, expressing that portion 

 which it is destined to express. 



Looking thus, then, on the problem of the life that 

 exists in the atom, we find that in order to under- 

 stand it, we must develop the pure intellect in man ; 

 but to understand the life that clothes itself in 

 organic forms, to unravel the secrets which will 

 explain to us why one is formed thus and another 

 thus, the next great aspect of the Self must be 

 developed within us that of the all-pervading life 

 of Vishnu, that sustains the world as the mighty 

 supporter of everything, the basis, the foundation of 

 jthe whole. There alone is unifying energy and 

 there the root from which all divisions have arisen ; 



