GOVERNMENT AND SCIENCE 201 



This should now act as a caution to us to endeavour to stop the 

 recurrence of such unseemly strifes in the future, when 

 the same strife will be carried on, not as in the past, between 

 priest and king, but between priest and professor ; not between 

 kingdoms and empires but between king and commoner, free- 

 dom and liberty, the right to work (which is only another 

 mode of expressing the right to live) against prohibition of 

 each man's free right to work how and as he wishes (which is 

 only another way of expressing or conferring upon one man 

 the right to enslave or starve his fellow-men by prohibiting 

 to his opponent the right of making a fair and unfettered fight 

 for his existence) subject only to such restrictions as are neces- 

 sary for the restriction of liberty so as to permit of freedom, 

 which, of course, includes the prevention, and when necessary, 

 the punishment of crime. 



So in the coming Epoch of Charity we are to drop the 

 wars of empire with empire, and religions with governments, 

 and wage a still fiercer war, if less destructive of life, than 

 the wars of the past, against indolence, selfishness, and love 

 of wealth and pleasure ; for the wars of the future are not to 

 be wars of wealth, aggrandisement and glory, but for wisdom, 

 truth, charity, mercy, honour and justice against strife, 

 avarice, greed, crime, dishonesty and folly. Thus we must 

 study evolution with greater care and endeavour to make our 

 lives conform to the laws of God in nature, if we would make 

 mankind perfect, and it is a law of nature that the more valu- 

 able the prize the more violent will be the struggle, which is 

 why God has postponed the struggle for truth and wisdom to 

 the last ; so that mankind might first be able to evolve a 

 physique and mind powerful enough to be able to endure the 

 long and bitter struggle necessary to evolve a soul of wisdom 

 which is likely to be even more intense than the present war 

 as compared with past wars, viz., a war where the combatants 

 will be so equally matched that until the last moment it will 

 be impossible to decide on which side the victory will be, and 

 crime will at the same time rise to a height of scientific excel- 

 lence never before dreamed of, just as war and murder have 

 done in the past and present. So we will have, each one of 

 us, to do our little mite to help to shape and guide the progress 

 of future evolution. The conviction of the important part 

 that a combination of action between religion and science will 



