LITTLE but our manhood must now realize that it is no longer 

 JOURNEYS the slave and tool of entrenched force and power that 



abrogates to itself the name of religion." 

 The Haeckel attitude of mind is essentially one of 

 faith Haeckel's hope for the race is sublime. There 

 are several things we do not know, but we may know 

 some time, just as men know things that children do 

 not. As yet we are only children in the kindergarten of 

 God. And this garden where we work and play is our 

 own. The boy of ten, or even the man of sixty may 

 never know, but there will come men greater than 

 these and they will understand. The Monist the man 

 who believes in the One the All is essentially re- 

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Hseckel has chosen this word Monism, as opposed to 

 theism, deism, materialism, spiritism. Dr. Paul Carus 

 is today the ablest American exponent of Monism, 

 and to him it is a positive religion. If Monism could 

 make men of the superb mental type of Paul Carus, 

 well might we place the subject on a compulsory 

 basis and introduce it in our public schools. But 

 Hseckel and Carus believe quite as much in freedom 

 as in Monism. All violence of direction is contrary to 

 growth, and delays evolution just that much. The 

 One of which we are part and particle single cells, if 

 you please is constantly working for its own good. 

 We advance individually as we lie low in the Lord's 

 hand, and allow ourselves to be receivers and con- 

 veyers of the Divine Will. 

 And we ourselves are the Divine Will. 

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