LOVE IS THE ELECTRIC LAW OF LIFE 227 



aristocracy. There have been four kinds of aristoc- 

 racy in the world's history. There has been the 

 aristocracy of muscle the supremacy of brute force. 

 This was followed by the aristocracy of blood or 

 family pedigree, by which one claimed by inheri- 

 tance superiority over others. Then came the aris- 

 tocracy of wealth, which prevails in our day, where- 

 by those who obtain fortunes by birth, accident, 

 parsimony, force or fraud, claim superiority over 

 others less sordid or less fortunate. But the true 

 and only aristocracy that ever has or ever will 

 exist in the human race is the aristocracy of love 

 and goodness. There is nothing so kingly as kind- 

 ness, nothing so royal as truth, and nothing so 

 godlike as love. 



The aristocracy of muscle has brought misery and 

 distress and cursed the world with cruelty and op- 

 pression ; the aristocracies of blood and wealth have 

 often brought sorrow to their possessors, and proved 

 a rope of sand, a broken reed, a Jonas' gourd that 

 faded in a night. But the aristocracy of love and 

 goodness is God's aristocracy, and belongs to the 

 society of heaven. It is a part of the family of Deity, 

 and possesses the wealth of the universe. It is the 

 pride of celestial hosts, and the joy and blessing of 

 transient mortality. The humblest of earth may 

 join this aristocracy of love and goodness and be 

 a prince and king in his own right, by royal pre- 

 rogative as eternal and enduring as the earth and 

 stars. 



Thus we find that love is the spiritual and electric 

 law of life, and the crown-jewel of the universe; 

 that it gives life and inspires it; that all the crea- 

 tions and forces of nature are dual and sexual, with 



