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the Trinity that have yet to be evolved are as follows : Peace, 

 Use, Comfort, Content, Joy, Pleasure, and Happiness. 



Now, as stated above, owing to her higher qualities of Com- 

 prehension, woman is able to grasp the truth and detect it 

 from falsehood, though she cannot explain how she does so, 

 whereas man, with all his knowledge, is lost, because he is 

 unable to comprehend the right from the wrong in the maze 

 of contradictions that knowledge, religion, and science place 

 before his bewildered mind, except in a few cases of men who 

 have the good fortune to be endowed to a more than ordinary 

 extent with their mothers' powers of comprehension, and in 

 this way have developed a strong logical mind which makes 

 these men able to place truth before wisdom. But you must 

 not forget that man has only a very limited power of trans- 

 mitting the qualities of the attributes of God the Mother. 



As an illustration of this, having been a farmer for 

 many years of my life, I will give an instance in the breeding 

 of stock to explain the case in point. In milking cattle, the 

 quality of the milk is a female attribute of body and is trans- 

 mitted by the cow, not by the bull ; the quantity is a male 

 attribute, representing power and strength, and is therefore 

 transmitted by the bull. It must be borne in mind that, as 

 explained in the chapter on descent or survival of the fittest, 

 there are exceptions in the cases of long throw-backs, but 

 these are phenomena of nature and only prove the rule. Thus 

 you can get a mongrel-bred cow which when put to a well-bred 

 bull will throw an abnormal result either way ; that is, it will 

 excel all average results for either good or bad. So in exactly 

 the same way your extraordinary genius or extreme criminal 

 may be bred from a family from which you would least expect 

 to produce him. Now, as I have stated, in the well-bred herd 

 of cattle the bull which has a large percentage of dams which 

 have been heavy milkers will produce heavy milking stock 

 but not of necessity heavy butter cows. But if he is put to 

 a cow that is a very light milker, but whose milk is of good 

 quality, he will bring her stock up to the standard of a good 

 average butter cow. 



In reading works on evolution and anthropology on this 

 subject, I have often noticed that the authors are at a loss to 

 account for the limited powers of invention possessed by many 

 races of mankind. Until I had obtained this hypothesis I 



