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This, then, surely means much when viewed in relation- 

 ship to the future destinies of the human race, and all 

 terrestrial problems involved in these destinies, individual, 

 communal, and affiliated. 



The unification and focussing of knowledge, and its 

 combined application to the wants of humanity, physical, 

 mental, and spiritual, constitute of a certainty a great and 

 irresistible lever for the raising of man to a higher position 

 in the hierarchy of being, and offer a wider and fuller 

 view of the necessities of his situation than have presented 

 themselves for many a day, and should infuse new life and 

 enthusiasm into his efforts after the good and the true in 

 all walks of life, and into the performance of everything 

 "his hand findeth to do " " of true and good report." 



Universal truth thus recognised, and applied to the 

 everyday wants and requirements, physical, intellectual, 

 and moral, of man, will secure his emancipation from the 

 thraldom of original and acquired idiosyncrasies, and 

 bring him in touch with and under the shaping influence 

 of all that is best and necessary for his successful occupa- 

 tion of his particular " niche " in this world and the place 

 for which he is adapted in the next by "first intention " 

 and the working out of his own destiny. 



In this connection, and as a natural continuation of the 

 study of all the so-called physical, intellectual, and moral 

 influences and developmental factors moulding the char- 

 acter of man, individual and communal, it becomes apparent 

 that the religious developments from the earliest periods of 

 the history of the human race have been the consequences 

 of impulses arising from an all-pervading conviction that 

 man's destiny did not begin and end with the ordinary, 

 shorter or longer, span of life, but that that life was merely 

 preliminary, and determinative of the direction in which it 

 was destined to progress. That conviction being based 

 on an innate or inbred " feeling," held more or less 

 strongly by all branches of the race, and supported by the 

 latest "findings" of science, compels the further con- 

 sideration of the probable destiny of man and the possi- 

 bilities in wait for his ever-living principle, the impelling 

 and compelling imperishable force composing his ego, in 

 order that he should be satisfied in his innermost self that 



