56 Evolution of Life and Form. 



tranquillity. The world of minerals obeys the com- 

 pulsion of the law ; the world of vegetables obeys 

 the compulsion of the law ; the world of animals 

 obeys the compulsion of the law ; but when man 

 arises, man in whom the Supreme is to be developed 

 after he has climbed through the lower stages, in 

 man there awakens the germ of the will, and the 

 separated wills bring about the discord which will 

 yet end in something greater and richer than the 

 harmony of the stones, of the vegetables, of the 

 animals. For when human evolution is over, 

 millions of separated wills will join in one mighty 

 chord of harmonious union, and that union of the 

 wills that voluntarily give themselves is mightier 

 in its powers, more beautiful in its expression, than 

 compelled obedience can ever be. The music that 

 humanity sends up to God, in all its varied melody, 

 is a far more perfect expression of Divinity than 

 can be drawn from the monochord that we find in 

 the lower kingdoms of nature ; but you will readily 

 understand that when these warring wills arise, 

 something, some one, is wanted in order to adapt, 

 to correlate, to bring about equilibrium among the 

 contending forces, so that the one purpose may be 

 steadily subserved. Let me take a concrete illus- 

 tration. Suppose I had here a ball which I want 

 to move. That ball can be moved along a straight 



