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have to play in future evolution has done much to make it 

 seem to me to be worth the time, trouble and courage that it 

 has entailed upon me to write this treatise, and to offer a 

 valid reason for my leaving the beaten track of past convictions 

 and to face the disapproval that my doing so will, I feel sure, 

 bring upon me in my attempt to offer a common meeting 

 ground to religion, science and governments ; by showing how 

 science and evolution when read and checked b} the light 

 thrown upon them by a clearer and more reasonable under- 

 standing of the mystery of God and His Trinity and its con- 

 nection and corporation with and influences over both creation 

 and religion and evolution, by the general if not particular 

 coincidence of facts that result when both science and religious 

 teachings are checked by the attributes of God's Trinity and 

 the mysteries of revelation are correctly interpreted. 



This I hope may induce these two mistresses of knowledge 

 join hands in the future and unite their efforts on 

 the principle of give and take basis, and so help 

 each other to make the mysteries of the revelation, which 

 it is their joint duty to expound, clear and understandable to 

 the dim minds of ordinary mortals, and by practising greater 

 tolerance and sinking each their proud and arrogant claim to 

 an infallible knowledge of wisdom that God has not yet vouch- 

 safed to the mind of mankind, to agree to drop their foolish 

 and bigoted antagonism and tear off the clothes of past super- 

 stition from their respective idols of belief and knowledge, 

 and by meeting in friendly contest on the common play- 

 ground of evolution and history, and God's Trinity, combine 

 together to unearth the truths of revelation. The careful 

 student of evolution and history cannot fail to notice that each 

 and every form of religious teaching, no matter how perfect 

 its original dogmas may have been, becomes out of date as 

 the attributes of God's Trinity return to creation to advance 

 the world of knowledge and the minds and souls of mankind, 

 as< they all slowly proceed along the road of evolution that 

 directs the course of creation, all point in the same direction 

 as time and the influence of man's will, now nearing its full 

 development, begin to make themselves felt as concurrent con- 

 trolling influences in the conduct of nature. 



So now we find that on the Tenth Day fate begins to con- 

 trol man's action by the hand of religion as his mind com- 



