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extent as to be able to labour for the sake of duty and to live 

 ior the good of the community rather than for his own plea- 

 sure or advantage, and to seek his happiness in the enjoyment 

 and good he can confer upon others rather than the enjoyment 

 his personal actions may produce, confident such a course of 

 action will be rewarded by God with perfect joy, happiness, 

 and content. This is the perfection that all mankind must 

 attain before immortal existence will be his reward. I would 

 here draw the reader's attention to this fact, even though I 

 may have mentioned it elsewhere, the Epoch of Faith is 

 devoted to physical evolutions, and the conquest of one species 

 or genus over another, and the evolution of animal mind. In 

 the Epoch of Hope the main fight of evolution is moved one of 

 its three most important stages forward, and the human mind 

 as it evolves enables man not only to overcome mightier 

 physical creations but use and take advantage of material 

 creations and existences. But its last day of invention is to 

 enable him to overcome and control the very forces of nature. 



The third week of creation is to witness a still greater 

 victory. His soul of wisdom which has been evolving since the 

 dawn of religion and government is to bring, as it is strength- 

 ened by the evolution of science, a state of mental perfection, 

 that will enable him in years yet to come, not only to conquer 

 the forces of nature; but even to control, govern, and direct 

 the animal and human emotions we are now showing in the 

 manner and order of evolution. By so doing he is to destroy 

 his animal passions, and thereby evolve in the last week of 

 evolution, the seven days that are to mark the manhood as the 

 second week marks the birth of all virtue ; and what higher 

 aim can be the end and object of all creation and evolution, than 

 perfection of human virtue ? 



It seems to me that before we can make any great move in 

 this direction, commerce must become universal so that the 

 necessity for constant change and redevelopment of natural 

 resources will be less marked requirements of the course of 

 the evolution in the future, than they have been in the past. 

 For this reason at present both youth and age are necessities 

 for the advancement of commerce and invention, etc. ; but 

 this will not be so necessary when commerce is universal, and 

 the world is fully populated, and when an increase in length of 

 life will no longer retard evolution. But that immortality will 



