Conclusion. 



Having analysed cosmic phenomena, the laws of origin, 

 and the application of these phenomena and these laws 

 to human life, it is easy to convince oneself that however 

 rational and intellectual man may be, however free his 

 will may seem, he is in fact powerless to move beyond 

 the limits assigned him by the nature and the needs of 

 the earth he lives on, and that any attempt to transgress 

 these limits can only threaten the offender with the pe- 

 nalties of ruin and of death. Human morality is there- 

 fore seen to be grounded on the laws of nature herself, 

 not upon any inventions of human ingenuity. 



Life is an eternal forward movement founded upon 

 the propagation of species and development, so far as 

 our earth is concerned, of terrestrial culture. All that 

 aids this process of culture, in whatever form, is moral; 

 all that hinders and opposes it is immorality itself. It 

 is easy to see what we must require from our religion, 

 our laws, our social institutions and our family life. In 

 all these departments alike our morality must root itself 

 in the claims of nature and express itself in actions and 

 in thoughts conformable to natural law and not trans- 

 gressing against the rights of others. 



This latter element in morality corresponds in a some- 

 what modified form to the commandments of our Sa- 

 viour: Love thy neighbour as thyself and Do unto others 

 as thou wouldst thev should do unto thee, and indeed 



