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bigotry that obscure our knowledge of the fundamental truths 

 of revelation, but in so doing not one hair of the head of this 

 venerable patriarchal teaching of God's Trinity, or the spirit 

 of divine inspiration must ever be destroyed, .and it is only 

 by science and religion meeting and joining hands on the one 

 common ground of God's Trinity as the basis of all creation, 

 and recognising this as the motive force which directs all crea- 

 tion that we can- evolve progression and not lapse into retro- 

 gression of religious and social evolutions. 



Now it is interesting here to note that so as to make sure 

 of the development of a new and perfect evolution of the revela- 

 tion of God's Trinity, it became necessary to transplant it to 

 new soils whereon it might produce new varieties of the same 

 plant. Hence in Egypt the doctrine of transmigration of souls 

 under the influences of Egyptian culture blooms into the 

 belief of an everlasting body. The seed that falls on Greece's 

 sunny isles blossoms into elevated ideals of a heaven peopled 

 with the angelic souls of past saints and heroes, which pro- 

 duces higher ideals of virtue and a higher ideal of philosophy. 

 Again the doctrine of an omnipotent Ruler, the God of order 

 and of fate, and the doctrine of caste acting on the more 

 practical minds of the Roman people is cultivated till it blooms 

 into the mighty sunflower of the government of the country 

 by its patrician aristocracy, elected by its people; that great 

 principle that has done so much to advance civilisation and 

 the formation of Empires and to make Commerce a success. 



We must go back three to twenty thousand years or 

 more along the tide of prehistoric fables and myths if we wish 

 to get the grip of the hereditary factors that form the basis of 

 these evolutions ; and are drifting back to a still older stage of 

 retrogression in evolution when we aim at the government of 

 the people by the people, for it is the worst possible form of 

 government belonging to ages of savagery, for this reason. 

 The Government of a country can only be the reflection of its 

 electoral basis, and three-quarters of the members of any 

 community constitute its failures, and will continue to do so 

 till we succeed in stopping the fools and the criminals from 

 breeding, for the wise consider before they marry, the fool 

 does not. In the meantime any government will fail to 

 advance the prosperity of its people which fails to keep the 

 control of the franchise amongst the most successful one-third 



