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become paramount over Might, but the reader must not forget 

 that this is not, by the clock of evolution, to take place till we 

 reach the Epoch of Charity. The Epoch of Hope, whose seven 

 days we are now discussing, is devoted to the supremacy of 

 Might over Right to make possible the evolutions of Religion, 

 Government, Discovery, Conquest and Commerce by means of 

 War, Greed and Robbery, whereas in the future we are to 

 evolve Joy, Pleasure and Happiness by the means of Know- 

 ledge, Invention and Use. 



So we find the first half of the Epoch of Hope is devoted to 

 the evolution of Imagination, which evolved in mankind the 

 highest forms of Love, Hate, Jealousy, Anger and Pugnacity, 

 and so built up cities and evolved agriculture and skill of manu- 

 facture amongst the Mongolian Races. Then Comprehension, 

 which was to enable him to evolve Play, Sympathy, Emula- 

 tion, Pride, Resentment and a love of beauty and art amongst 

 the Aryan or northern races, and so make the inter-marriage 

 or intermingling of these great divisions of mankind worthy 

 at least of being redeemed, as he thereby receives the germs 

 or seeds of Honour, Justice and Mercy, which qualities are to 

 enable him during the second half of the Epoch of Hope to 

 evolve Religion, Government, Science, Commerce and Inven- 

 tion. God and Nature have now sown these seeds during the 

 Epoch of Hope which the last century has just brought to a 

 close, seeds which are fast becoming the plants of knowledge, 

 judgment, and wisdom, and which are now enabling him to 

 conquer his worst enemies of the past fire, air and water; 

 plants which in the Epoch of Charity yet to come, when ferti- 

 lised by the rains of the Spirit of God the Soul, of Wisdom and 

 Understanding, of a perfect interpretation of Truth, Science 

 and Revelation, and ripened under the sunshine of religious 

 direction (there is a vast difference between direction and sub- 

 jection), bloom into flowers of Immortality, which are to grow 

 in the garden of heaven on earth. 



Hence the Mongolian civilisation could only produce agri- 

 culture, skill, manufacture, with its concurrent results of com- 

 petition, strife and greed, as also a material belief which rose 

 out of a study of meteorological indications resulting in super- 

 stition and necromancy which gave birth to idolatry. The 

 northern or Aryan races, on the other hand, leading a pastoral 

 and huntsman's life, evolve a concurrent evolution of civilisa- 



