n 4 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



man, when it will be found that the evolution of the mind and 

 soul has, and is to be carried on on exactly the same lines as 

 has been followed in the evolution of the body, and that it is 

 only by the means of more perfect study of evolution, read in 

 conjunction with a more perfect understanding of what consti- 

 tutes God and His Trinity and its connection with the creation, 

 that we will be able to ascertain how we are in the wisest 

 manner to direct our lives and rule and govern our people so 

 as to produce the maximum amount of peace, comfort, content, 

 mercy, justice and charity. This is why I maintain that the 

 science of evolution is one that is worthy of being made more 

 understandable and more interesting to the mass of the people, 

 even at the cost of not adhering in a hard and fast manner 

 to scientific rules of procedure. 



Now, the idea of immortality to which evolution points is 

 that the immortality of the soul is one continuous passage of 

 life in its spirit form from generation to generation, through- 

 out the whole family existence, having a continuous repro- 

 duction like the life of animals and plants, an individual life 

 having a continuous existence in different and successive 

 bodies, and I shall therefore devote my next chapter to Life 

 and Death, or Rebirth and Heredity (see also Book I., chap- 

 ters XI. and XII., " Mind and Soul "). 



