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acquire a mind capable of understanding, which mind will 

 enable him to conquer himself in the future, as he has con- 

 quered the world of Matter in the past by the minds of Imagi- 

 nation and Comprehension. But Imagination could only give 

 him the barest rudiments of knowledge to make him the 

 poorest of agriculturists. It took Comprehension to enable 

 him to evolve science and religion, and it will take not only a 

 mind but a soul of Understanding to enable him to conquer 

 crime and to become a religion unto himself, which he must 

 do before he will be fit to receive Immortality. 



This mind of Understanding is the mind that makes one 

 man superior to another in Wisdom, Power and Wealth. For 

 it is the power to understand when and how to do fight by the 

 possession of the qualities of wisdom (i.e., of correct judg- 

 ment), justice and mercy that makes both wealth and superi- 

 ority, and it is the possession in a superior degree of some or 

 all of these qualities combined with energy and perseverance 

 and economy that makes wealth, not wealth that makes 

 superiority. Hence we are wealthy because we are superior 

 to our neighbours, and because our ancestors and families 

 have been superior to other families, not their superiors be- 

 cause we are wealthy. And because the mind that our family 

 has developed is superior in the majority of the members of 

 our family to the majority of other families." 



This mind of Understanding is the mind of the philosopher, 

 king, ruler, or business manager, and the man who devotes 

 his time and energies to acts of public benefit and who lives 

 not for his stomach, bed and pocket, but for the honour, 

 ambition and glory of the public weal. So we have before 

 us a great struggle to abolish war and strife, either religious, 

 racial, or industrial, to adjust social injustices (but not social 

 inequalities), and to fix the limits of individual claims, and 

 public rights, which may well make modern man tremble at 

 the future in store for him and his children. 



