xii. INTRODUCTION 



faults making any permanent impression upon future 



thought. 



In the course of his speech Professor Schuster remarks : 

 " In the common aims of Science and Humanity, " I wish to 

 go one step further and say the common aims of Government, 

 social and religious, are all bound up in the Science of Evolu- 

 tion, controlled and governed and proved and directed by 'the 

 Trinity of the God that has created them. 



In his closing paragraphs he remarks : " Do we not find 

 " in the worship of success, the seed of that pernicious ambi- 

 " tion which has maddened a nation and plunged Europe into 

 " war? Is this contempt of all idealistic purpose not respon- 

 " sible for the mischievous doctrine that the power to possess 

 " confers the right to possess, and that possession is desirable 

 " in itself, without regard to the use which is made of it? " 



And I maintain that now, as I try to point out in this trea- 

 tise, that we have arrived at the stage of evolution, when the 

 Holy Ghost is about to descend upon mankind, not as of old 

 in visible tongues of fire which were not to abide with man, 

 and were only a symbolic illustration of the more practical 

 descent of the Holy Ghost in the twentieth century and subse- 

 quent centuries, in the invisible but more lasting form of the 

 real light of wisdom coming out of the brains of man in tongues 

 of speech, a form of divine revelation that now that man is 

 beginning to evolve a mind of understanding will enable him 

 ultimately to know the truths of divine revelation in a manner 

 that will make the whole world kin, and by destroying war 

 and strife to create a future of Unity of Charity and of Use, 

 and another trinity of Knowledge, Love and Wisdom, which 

 two trinities will evolve the final trinity of Peace, Comfort and 

 Content. And these three trinities make a trinity of trinities 

 that is to evolve heaven on earth by creating the trinity of 

 results of Joy, Pleasure and Happiness, when man will at last 

 have a just claim to demand the third and final trinity of 

 God's three miracles that are to mark his prerogative to rule 

 nature, the miracle of Immortality. That the Professor 

 realized that we are nearing the commencement of this third 

 great departure on the road of Evolution, that the birth of the 

 spirit of Understanding, the true descent of the Holy Ghost 

 which the last century has started by the mind of man having 

 at last become fit, at least amongst its wisest men, to receive 



