172 GENERAL EVOLUTION. 



and in part dejoendent on, the evolution of tlie intelligence, appears 

 very probable ; for this evolution is seen — 'first, in a better under- 

 standing of the consequences of action, and of good and of evil in 

 many things ; and, second, in the production of means for the 

 spread of the special instrumentalities of good. The following 

 may be enumerated as such instrumentalities : 



1. Furnishing literary means of record and distribution of the 

 truths of religion, morality, and science. 



2. Creating and increasing modes of transportation of teachers 

 and literary means of disseminating truth. 



3. Facilitating the migration and the spread of nations holding 

 the highest position in the scale of morality. 



4. The increase of wealth, which multiplies the extent of the 

 preceding means. 



And now, let no man attempt to set bounds to this develop- 

 ment. Let no man say even that morality accomplished is all that 

 is required of mankind, since that is not necessarily the evidence 

 of a spiritual development. If a man possess the capacity for prog- 

 ress beyond the condition in which he finds liimself, in refusing to 

 enter upon it he declines to conform to the divine law. For 

 *'from those to whom little is given, little is required, but from 

 those to whom much is given, much shall be required." 



