4 Preface. 



his uplifting to place all the creatures of the earth over which he was 

 given dominion by God upon a more elevated and nobler plane, so 

 that those which had been profited in the earth-life by his beneficent 

 influence should become partakers with him in the new life, when 

 Christ shall " transfigure the body of our humiliation, that it may 

 become of like form with the body of His glory, by the power of that 

 which enables Him even to subdue all things to Himself." As all 

 existence is a unit, which the author has taken especial pains through 

 the body of this book to impress upon the minds of his readers, it can 

 hardly be conceived that an all-wise God, who is infinite in love, 

 mercy and justice, would look to the preservation in a future state of 

 but a very small part of the life which He has been instrumental in 

 placing upon this earth. It would be more consistent with His attri- 

 butes, and with the scheme of development of life upon our planet, 

 whereby life has been progressive, the fittest only being allowed to 

 survive, to have provided in the grand plan of redemption, not merely 

 the salvation of the highest of earth-life, but of all life, the purest and 

 the best, that would represent in the heaven-life, in spiritualized form, 

 the highest living exponents of Divine ideas. No other belief accords 

 so well with the teachings of science and philosophy. In its accept- 

 ance, for it makes all life related to the Divine life, can there be any 

 hope of escape from materialism, that curse of the age. 



THOMAS G. GENTRY, Sc. D. 

 PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 28, 1897. 



