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accept the inevitable (for it is only the fool who knocks his 

 head against a stone wall), soon saw on which side his bread 

 was buttered and that it was a far better Jbillet to be the 

 adviser of a powerful king than to be a weak prophet or 

 religious ruler. So he preferred to become the chosen minister 

 and adviser of the most powerful king or general. This made 

 him a student of law as well as of necromancy. This in its 

 turn gave birth to state laws out of religious ones, and so 

 government became evolved and the student became protected 

 and honoured by the wealthy and powerful, provided he 

 taught what the king desired. This gave him the time and 

 leisure to turn his attention to other branches of knowledge, 

 which brought him a still greater increase of both power and 

 wealth. In this way he became the instructor in agriculture, 

 the law maker and, consequently, the protector and instigator 

 of Commerce, and for centuries the monopolist of the Com- 

 merce also. 



I think I have now shown the reader the manner in which 

 these three days of Study, Government and Science were 

 evolved in exactly the same order as they appear in Table II. 

 of the marriages, and the companion Table III. of compari- 

 son, which is all that is incumbent on me to do in support 

 of the Hypothesis, that in God's Trinity lies the key to 

 Evolution. And as we have now reached the stages of 

 History, the further elucidation of the subject can be obtained 

 by any of my readers who wish to trace the subject further. 

 I need only state that as Governments became more secure, 

 and the possibilities of acquiring wealth more within the reach 

 of every man, more thought and time were devoted to study 

 instead of to war, agriculture and trade. Thus Science was 

 evolved in the wake of government, fostered and cherished 

 by its mother, Religion. Hence arose a new and bitter strife 

 for power, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes intermingled 

 with periods of truce between the alternate competitors for th^ 

 rule of mankind Government, Religion and Science, which 

 make up the Trinity of Forces that rule mankind's mind and 

 soul and evolve society. This is the real cause of all so-called 

 Religious persecutions, and these, as I have already explained, 

 only arise when religions are used as a cloak for political 

 organisation so as to enable conspirators to meet together and 

 use fanatical influences that religious organisations plot as a 



