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us all, and which decides the ends for which and by which we 

 live, move and have our being, and that to God, not to man or 

 man's laws, will we have to look for the rewards or wages of 

 our acts, and on our own energy and the efficiency of the work 

 we do will we have to depend if we wish to merit these re- 

 wards ; or else our knowledge, science and culture will be lost 

 in the future as it has been in the past, and we will find, as 

 other decayed nations have found, that we cannot allow 

 man to think for himself, until after we first teach him to 

 govern himself before he can be fit to be granted increased 

 liberty of thought. And we will find that without that founda- 

 tion of energy, use and charity, science, like modern artillery, 

 is only a more rapid means of death and destruction that is 

 hurrying us on to an untimely end. It is one of the many 

 strange analogies of history that when the rulers of a nation 

 are the greatest criminals and sinners the mass of the people 

 are the most virtuous, and that when the leaders are the most 

 virtuous, the mass of the people become the most degenerate 

 and steeped in crime. This is only the result of the fact that 

 Evolution is the work of reactions, and it is these reactions 

 that evolve social distinctions. 



Now at the present time the German philosophers are 

 making the greatest of all errors in endeavouring to establish 

 a dogma of materialism and militarism which can only take the 

 world back to the early days of Chinese civilisation. But 

 the English philosopher is on the right track, for at the 

 same time as he is increasing his knowledge in all branches 

 of science, he is endeavouring not to lose sight of the mighty 

 influence of God and His Trinity, and of His Revelations 

 as the domineering factors of creation and of evolution. We 

 gaze with admiration at the beautiful development of English 

 ideals of philosophy, and England's advanced ideals of 

 charity, justice and mercy, and her desire to grant liberty 

 and knowledge to her people by her idol of education, but when 

 we look at the face of England's idol and extol its beautiful 

 countenance, with eyes of ruby light and broad expansive 

 forehead, we regret to find that its feet are made of clay. 

 When we turn to the German idol of education we notice with 

 disgust that its head is the materialistic, loathsome image 

 of some antique heathen deity, but as we are turning away 

 with disgust, we observe that it is shod with Wellington boots 



