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to any one to account for the slow advancement of 

 thought by the fact that the psychological process of 

 its generation has been in the main an asexual and not 

 a bisexual process. It is to be noted that the great 

 thinkers have been usually great lovers. Perhaps, 

 Goethe, we have surprised the secret of your wonder- 

 ful mind ! 



But this whereof we speak is personal love; what 

 significance can it have for the collective conscious- 

 ness? Every mode of self-expression that was once 

 individual, such as music and dancing, has in the 

 course of time become racial; the social body in all 

 probability follows the individual one in the general 

 lines of its development. Now we have found that 

 love in its highest attributes is a constructive syn- 

 thetic force, creative of the ideal. Let such power 

 become universal and we shall know a love that for 

 its potency may well have cosmic sway. 



The mere recognition that the power to love cen- 

 tres in the power to attend does not, however, pro- 

 duce that power. And this is where science plays 

 its part. The habits of study and concentration 

 which science induces are the best possible for train- 

 ing the mind to self-directed effort. Science requires 

 as no other subject the close attention of which love 

 is the highest manifestation. Moreover, scientific 

 knowledge, founded as it is upon the universal laws of 

 nature, must perforce fuse and unify the race as 

 naught else. 



