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rise into the position of an unquestioned, and ultimately 

 unusurpable, kingdom, wherein will dwell the fuller 

 development of the human family in an atmosphere of 

 righteousness, and all that can flow from perfect conformity 

 to its requirements. 



It surely, therefore, behoves mankind throughout the 

 world to work its best in aid of the accomplishment of 

 this glorious work with no other but a single eye and 

 determined purpose to further what must be a united task 

 and a great general developmental process, feeling in its 

 individual, as well as in its communal capacity, that it is 

 adding fraction after fraction to the great sum of human 

 effort to forward, and ultimately to achieve, the perfection 

 of the human race, and so to aid the great general purposes 

 of the Creator and Governor of all things. 



The leaders of thought and the pioneers of knowledge 

 throughout the world, in whatever state they be, recog- 

 nising their individual and communal relationships to the 

 great forward and upward progress of humanity, may do 

 much by respecting each other and the quality of the work 

 they are doing in the cause of general progress, to expedite 

 the arrival of the race at the great goal of complete 

 adaptation to the requirements of its environments and 

 the attainment of its destined position in the hierarchy of 

 intelligence and responsible being ; let them, then, close 

 their ranks, present a united front to the world of ignor- 

 ance and error, and fight "shoulder to shoulder" in "the 

 good fight of faith," in the field of emancipation from 

 evil and the conferring of good, which is the highest ideal 

 yet attained to by civilised man. Let there be no more 

 saying that I am of this school and I am of that school, 

 but, feeling united to one another by the bonds of a 

 common brotherhood, by a consciousness of working for 

 the same cause, and by the recognition of the fact that they 

 are each cultivating a patch of the same great field of 

 truth, let them go forward in the glorious common task 

 of realising the great destinies which they each believe, 

 with lesser or greater strength, await perfected humanity. 



By so doing, we are persuaded that they will each 

 become possessed of a stronger desire to accomplish more 

 and more the cultivation of ; tKeir individual field, of work, 



