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fellow-helpers can most easily, most loyally, and 

 most perfectly do their part by studying closely 

 the architecture of the earlier world, and continu- 

 ing the half-finished structure symmetrically to the 

 top. The information necessary to complete the 

 work with architectural consistency lies in Nature. 

 We might expect that it should be there. When 

 a business is transferred, or a partner assumed, the 

 books are shown, the methods of the business ex- 

 plained, its future developments pointed out. All 

 this is now done for the Evolution of Mankind. 

 In Evolution Creation has shown her hand. To 

 have kept the secret from Man would have im- 

 perilled the further evolution. To have revealed 

 it sooner had been premature. Love must come 

 before knowledge, for knowledge is the instrument 

 of Love, and useless till it arrives. But now that 

 there is Altruism enough in the world to begin the 

 new era, there must be wisdom enough to direct it. 

 To make Nature spell out her own career, to 

 embody the key to the development in the very 

 development itself, so that the key might be 

 handed over along with the work, was to make the 

 transference of responsibility possible and rational. 

 In the seventeenth century, Descartes, who with 

 Leibnitz already foresaw the adumbration of the 

 evolutionary process, almost pointed this out ; for 



