u6 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



science the hunting up of the proofs of knowledge and ex- 

 perience to be placed before the world for review and judgment, 

 that it may save thought from falling into the maze of intricate 

 pitfalls that knowledge and science are continually presenting 

 to its view by sifting the grains of truth from out the mass 

 of fiction presented for its review. I will demonstrate in 

 Chapter VI. of Book II. on Development of Mind, and in 

 Chapters XI. and XII., Book I., that there are three classes 

 of mind ; that mind and soul are the products of the attributes 

 of the three different persons of God's Trinity, and therefore 

 one class of mind cannot perform or control more than the one 

 class of knowledge or work. 



I am only submitting a sound hypothesis, at the same time 

 knowing that many of the arguments adduced may be incor- 

 rect in detail, trusting to the reader possessed of a mind 

 of understanding and of greater knowledge to find the weak 

 places and strengthen the girders and the frame-work of facts 

 in the bridge of controversy that I am endeavouring to throw 

 across the rivers of Superstitions, Bigotry and Doubt, which 

 intersect the valleys of Evolution. I hope also to pull down 

 the false clothing of vivid imaginations and superstitions 

 which have made truth taste sweet and pleasant in the past 

 at the cost of its transmogrification, so that in its bare nudity 

 a more scientific mind may follow in my footsteps and make 

 clear and understandable what I can only enable others to 

 comprehend, for the comprehensive mind only makes wisdom 

 visible ; the mind of understanding must remove the obstruc- 

 tions to a clear and detailed perception of facts, and I must 

 leave to each one of my readers the decision as to how much of 

 the clothing of bigotry and superstition he wishes to leave on 

 or tear off to suit his individual power of understanding, 

 hoping in the meantime that my thoughts may act as a finger- 

 post pointing out the true and direct road to virtue and wisdom, 

 instead of having to travel along the more circuitous carriage- 

 drives of science and religion. I offer this hypothesis to the 

 public in the hope that it may be used as a primary work to 

 be, as its title implies, a kindergarten to more advanced 

 results of further study, and may act as a short-cut to a better 

 understanding both of science and of religion ; but it will in all 

 probability require the labours and thoughts of many men and 

 many years to bring so deep a subject into a concise science 



