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the evolution of man's mind. We then come to the sixth mar- 

 riage of Trinity, which reads MIND marries LIFE and begets 

 the POWER OF HUMAN WILL. At this stage of its 

 history the world is evolving Government which assuredly is 

 the power of human will. The ninth marriage informs us that 

 KNOWLEDGE .weds COMPREHENSION and begets 

 UNDERSTANDING; RESULT Science; and again we see 

 that on this, its twelfth day, evolution has arrived at the dawn 

 of the age of Discovery now that Science is beginning to dawn 

 in the mind of man. Our next marriage reads UNDER- 

 STANDING marries COMPREHENSION and begets 

 INVENTION, the result of which is COMMERCE; and 

 again we find on the thirteenth day at which evolution has by 

 now arrived, conditions of barter and commercial intercourse 

 are now extending the limits of evolution's second stage, the 

 struggle for the life of others by the means of commerce. 



The ninth marriage of Trinity ushers in the present or four- 

 teenth day of Creation, and reads thus : KNOWLEDGE 

 marries INVENTION and begets USE. Now the result of 

 Knowledge, Invention and Use is that these three forces when 

 combined enable mankind to conquer the forces of Nature, 

 hence we may truly say that the result of this marriage of 

 these forces of God's Trinity is the conquest of Matter, and 

 surely the age in which we are now living is the age of Inven- 

 tion, and may truly be said to have produced the conquest of 

 the material forces of Nature. For with our Telescope, 

 Railways, Telephones and Flying Machines, have we not com- 

 passed more in the last thousand years or so, than has been 

 accomplished in millions of years ? 



The rest of our marriages point, not to the evolution of the 

 past, but to that of the future. So we find that this four- 

 teenth day of creation corresponds with the result of the mar- 

 riage of God's Trinity which our Table points out to be man's 

 conquest over the elements, the fear of which first taught him 

 to believe in the existence of an Almighty Creator, but which 

 from henceforth he is to harness as prisoner to his triumphal 

 car, and in so doing leave behind the past ages of superstition, 

 bigotry and the darkness of ignorance. When in the coming 

 fifteenth day of Peace amongst Nations and men of goodwill, 

 he shall produce conditions that will make it possible for him, 

 on the sixteenth day of creation, to evolve an age of USE, and 



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