128 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



cruelty, greed and selfishness ends, but devoted to universal 

 prosperity, benevolence and charity shall evolve commerce 

 without deceit and trade without strife, wealth without arrog- 

 ance, and the receipt of benevolence without its producing 

 indolence, and the habit of dependancy on others and 

 pauperism in place of energy. For it is the loss of energy 

 that destroys all the well-laid schemes of mankind to reduce 

 poverty, and after this man will have evolved and won 

 heaven, whether on this planet or another I will not 

 presume to say ; but it is most probable that he will slowly 

 attain to immortality when he will receive the just reward 

 of his well-fought fight to attain perfection. 



This will be rewarded by his becoming immortal, but 

 till then Life and Death, birth and rebirth are necessities 

 of evolution. But as it has taken in the past millions of years 

 to evolve his body, so it may take millions of years in 

 the future before the advances of medical science can prolong 

 life forever. I must here point out that until commerce is 

 further developed and we have evolved to a sufficiently high 

 state of perfection to be able to live without doing anything 

 that injures or offends others, and to try to bear each other's 

 burdens, not to throw down the load when it becomes heavy, 

 life and death are necessities of existence. For we do not play 

 because we are young, but we are young that we may the 

 better play, and if one generation did not die out to make 

 place for the other, evolution would not evolve. For the 

 older we get the more we fall into fixed grooves. So age 

 must give place to youth that youth may change its abode 

 and seek pastures new and fresh fields of enterprise. 



When the world is perfectly wise and fully populated with 

 wise inhabitants who can live together in perfect charity, this 

 will no longer be necessary as it is to-day, for then the earth 

 will be fully stocked and governed by perfect beings in a 

 perfect manner, and commerce having become universal, no 

 further need for constant change will be necessary. To this 

 revolving state of continual change, life and death are neces- 

 sities, for if youth had not caused us to shift from place to 

 place to seek fresh occupations, we would never have 

 developed as we have done, nor have been capable of half 

 the advancements that we have already attained, let alone the 

 more complex ones that we shall have to evolve in the future, 



