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ment of religious sensibility may have been, is a ques- 

 tion we reverently leave untouched. That it is inti- 

 mately connected in some way with, and in part 

 dependent on, the evolution of the intelligence, ap- 

 pears very probable : for this evolution is seen First, 

 in a better understanding of the consequences of action, 

 and of good and of evil in many things ; and Second, in 

 the production of means for the spread of the special 

 instrumentalities of good. The following may be enu- 

 merated as such instrumentalities : 



1. Furnishing literary means of record and distribu- 

 tion of the truths of religion, morality and science. 



2. Creating and increasing modes of transportation 

 of teachers and literary means of disseminating truth. 



3. Facilitating the migration and the spread of na- 

 tions holding the highest position in the scale of 

 morality. 



4. The increase of wealth, which multiplies the ex- 

 tent of the preceding means. 



And now, let no man attempt to set bounds to this 

 development. Let no man say even that morality ac- 

 complished is all that is required of mankind, since 

 that is not necessarily the evidence of a spiritual devel- 

 opment. If a man possess the capacity for progress 

 beyond the condition in which he finds himself, in re- 

 fusing to enter upon it he declines to conform to the 

 Divine law. And "from those to whom little is given, 

 little is required, but from those to whom much is given, 

 much shall be required.'* 



