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enemies, by him was the word neighbor defined so 

 as to include every one who needed help, whether of 

 the same tribe or nation or another, whether friend 

 or foe. Thus it was that love, the special attribute 

 of man, was so broadened as to include all mankind 

 and to bring about a universal brotherhood. This 

 law of Christ looks towards the destruction of the 

 tribal relation, and the national relation as well, and 

 when it is fully established as the law of man, it will 

 produce one nation, one association, which shall 

 combine all of mankind into one union of mutual 

 assistance and love. We are far enough from such a 

 condition at present. It is the millenium of which 

 we sometimes dream, and toward which our progress 

 seems slow enough. But the development of man 

 is tending in this direction, now that he has once 

 recognized that universal love is the law of his life. 



Looking forward then into the coming centuries 

 we see the vegetable world remaining practically as 

 it is, except as it is modified by the interference of 

 man in exterminating plants not of value to him, 

 and improving those which he uses. We see the 

 animal kingdom on the land largely exterminated by 

 the power of man, though life in the ocean may for 

 a long time remain unchanged. But the marine 

 types offer no chance for the future, for they are all 

 low ones which reached their culmination in the past 

 ages. But we see mankind left, the creature of God, 

 advancing in intelligence, knowledge, and morality, 

 to the end which we do not see and cannot imagine. 

 Whether there be a phase in our nature superior to 

 mind, which shall in the future ages be brought into 



