CHAPTER VIII 



GOVERNMENT AND SCIENCE 



HAVING now carried my reader along the course of evolution 

 to the Tenth Day of Creation, and endeavoured to point out 

 the manner in which, as the Spirit of God the Soul entered 

 into the mind of mankind and so evolved a human as well 

 as an animal mind, I have taken him to the second great 

 departure from the natural laws that govern evolution, and 

 advanced him to the second half of Table I. marked Involu- 

 tion, which is the third stage of creation, the Dawn of Soul. 



In just the same manner that the first two or three 

 years of childhood are devoted to the animal development of our 

 minds, and the next twelve or thirteen years see the production 

 of our character till we near the dawn of manhood, although 

 the emotions of character are being evolved throughout these 

 twelve or thirteen years, they are not complete till we have 

 attained our twenty-fifth year; and although all our animal 

 qualities were evolved during the first two years of our lives, 

 they but slightly affected our actions, which were dominated 

 over by the will of our parents and superiors, until we had 

 evolved a will of our own. This does not take place till after 

 we are fifteen years of age, when the individual Soul of 

 Wisdom begins to dawn in our minds, to grow until 

 after thirty when we attain manhood, and become the masters of 

 our actions. So in evolution, although the dawn of soul 

 commences on the Eighth Day of creation when both Imagina- 

 tion and Comprehension, two out of the three attributes of 

 man's soul have now commenced to be evolved, we may say 

 as he is now getting more than half the attributes of his soul, 

 that he is beginning to evolve wisdom as a force in the world 

 by the evolution of human government, in place of divine 

 control which has alone hitherto had to dominate over creation. 



It is now my duty to show, as far as possible, that it 

 is most probable that Government, Science, Commerce and 

 Invention have followed on in the sequence of creation to 



