64 The Destiny of Man. 



and with the progress of material civiliza- 

 tion this will be more and more the case. 

 If we can imagine a future time when war- 

 fare and crime shall have been done away 

 with forever, when disease shall have been 

 for the most part curbed, and when every 

 human being by moderate labour can se- 

 cure ample food and shelter, we can also 

 see that in such a state of things the work 

 of civilization would be by no means com- 

 pleted. In ministering to human happi- 

 ness in countless ways, through the pur- 

 suit of purely spiritual ends, in enriching 

 and diversifying life to the utmost, there 

 would still be almost limitless work to 

 be done. I believe that such a time will 

 come for weary and suffering mankind. 

 Such a faith is inspiring. It sustains one 

 in the work of life, when one would other- 

 wise lose heart. But it is a faith that 

 rests upon induction. The process of ev- 

 olution is excessively slow, and its ends 

 are achieved at the cost of enormous waste 

 of life, but for innumerable ages its direo 



