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be obtained by all nations or people at the same time or period 

 of involution, I do not think at all probable. Such nations 

 or persons who first attain to perfection will probably outlive 

 those who do not ; and as Science teaches us how to live with 

 greater health and less abuse of our systems, our lives will be 

 prolonged, and those who fail to benefit by the lessons Science 

 teaches, will gradually die out and be replaced by those who 

 are better fitted for immortality ; but as God permits nothing 

 to happen in the course of Evolution until the world is fit for 

 it, this will not take place till after we become wise enough 

 to prevent crime being committed in any way offensive to 

 others, as man evolves a perfect system of government by his 

 increased wisdom, and accumulated experience, and extended 

 knowledge, from the experiences of Evolution. This appears 

 to me the final aim and goal to which the course of Evolu- 

 tion and its laws are pointing; but this is too vast a subject 

 for me to discuss in a treatise like this, the object of which 

 is only to point out the most direct and general course of 

 Evolution in the past, present, and future, and its connection 

 and coincidence with, and its relation to, the influences of God 

 and His Trinity on the production of creation. 



I will now endeavour to compare these emotions with Table 

 IV. in Book I. in order to show what are imperfect, and what 

 will be perfect in the course of Evolution, and what will last 

 for eternity. The mathematical list of Table IV., Book I., 

 gives i, 2, 5, and, 8 as numbers of imperfection ; 3, 6, and 9 

 as representing perfection ; and 4, 7, and 10 as representing 

 eternity. Now reviewing these emotions by the test of Table 

 IV. we find the following results in the Epochs to be : 



