176 THE PORTAL OF EVOLUTION 



so much in the future will science have to do the work that 

 religion has done in the past, that I should leave this chapter 

 incomplete had I not made these remarks. And I must point 

 out that far and away as our ideals of philosophy may be 

 above those of the rest of the world, if we do not reform our 

 system of education, and make it somewhat after the German 

 system, we will find when we have evolved further knowledge 

 in the future, that the masses of the people will not be fit to 

 recefve such knowledge, and that in this point Germany will 

 be a century ahead of us, and will then have learnt the folly 

 that her ideas of materialism are sure to teach her. This 

 will place her in the right position to profit by our mistakes', 

 and she will steal our brains as she is now anxious to steal 

 our trade and colonies, because she has given more attention 

 to developing the energy, efficiency and wisdom or sound com- 

 mon sense of her people, which is of greater importance than 

 developing their knowledge. 



And it is because I feel that if mankind can be taught the 

 truths of God's Trinity that my hypothesis contains, and so 

 learn to realise the why and the wherefore of creation and the 

 aims and objects of his existence, and the reasons why and 

 wherefore he is permitted to exist, and the duties of life that 

 evolution teaches and imposes upon him, are the passports for 

 such permission, and which give us the right for its renewal 

 and continuance of such permission to continue to live in our- 

 selves and in our children. Such knowledge may do much to 

 impress upon mankind the necessity for him to aim at higher 

 ideals of perfection in perseverance, energy and economy, and 

 to strive^ to control his actions for the good of others and to 

 realise that he owes his own happiness to the labour and acts 

 and consideration of others more than to his own acts, and 

 may do much to teach future generations to know and think 

 without wanting to become loafers and wasters, which the 

 present trend of trades-unionism and trade strife is fast pro- 

 ducing. For under modern conditions of civilisation we can- 

 not even strike a match to light a pipe without being under an 

 obligation to the lives and labours of others. I am of belief 

 that unionism has many advantages, but if it is to do good 

 it must take the form of unity between employer and em' 

 ployee, and must advocate freedom of contract, and aim at 

 increasing the efficacy of work rather than at trying to fix 



