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a true and correct understanding of the absolute revelations 

 of God to man, both science and religion must join hands, 

 and as Professor Tyndall says, " Sink their differences, priest 

 and philosopher alike/* and consent to walk side by side 

 along the road of evolution, agreeing to give and take in 

 the future and to assist each other by science bending its 

 head to religion, and religion altering its long-loved dogmas 

 of the past and endeavouring in the future to bring them into 

 line with the increased knowledge; God must ever be taken 

 into account, so that a further development of soul will 

 enable man in the future to understand what in the past he 

 has had to obtain second-hand through faith and belief. For 

 in the future just as Christ has opened the eyes of man's soul 

 to see and believe, so the wisdom of man's brain assisted by 

 the aid of the Holy Ghost's inspiration in the scientific know- 

 ledge he is to acquire in the future, which is to bring down 

 the wisdom of God the Holy Ghost upon this world of ours 

 and enable him to know all things even to the consummation 

 of the world. And if the Hypothesis of this treatise is (as I 

 feel confident it will be) the means of establishing a common 

 meeting ground for consultation and comparison of ideas 

 between science and religion whereby they may settle their 

 disputes, allay their discord, and produce a more reasonable 

 and less mysterious doctrine of the best and most perfect 

 rules by which man can rule, manage and conduct the duties 

 of his state of life in the future, my labour will not be without 

 result and the seed I am now sowing will bloom into a mighty 

 plant watered by the rains of man's soul and manured by the 

 gifts of scientific research, beautified by the flower of the 

 enlightenment of the revelations of past religions, fables, 

 parables and teachings as evolution makes them clear to the 

 wise souls she is evolving. 



Now if we review the course of Evolution in the past, the 

 growth in man's mind of the primary conceptions of the truths 

 of religion have been a mental development of the soul out of 

 the animal mind slowly presenting to his soul, as he evolved, 

 the powers of thought, and directing the course of creation 

 in exact accordance with God's scheme of evolution, thus 

 enabling all creation to follow the destiny for which it was 

 created, withoiit any individual imagination, will or self- 

 control, until the end of the Epoch of Faith, when the soul 



