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than for the good of the community as a whole. We must 

 also remember that in the past, had not both classes worked 

 out their existence on opposite lines, we would not have been 

 able to evolve Civilisation, empires, or commerce, for Com- 

 merce has grown out of Love of Power, Love of wealth, and 

 Emulation, and created wars and strife from selfish love of 

 wealth, without which Commerce would never have been more 

 than peddling. There would not have been sufficient induce- 

 ment to create great cities, nor the required emulation neces- 

 sary for the evolution of empires, and Science and Invention 

 would have stopped short. Hence the characteristic of the 

 commercial class is Enterprise, Invention and Progress. 



Next we come to* the class that, as civilisation increases, 

 must ever be the most numerous the Artisan or Manufactur- 

 ing Class. Their characteristics are essentially want of mental 

 powers of judgment, for their occupation entails no self-reli- 

 ance ; they will ever be ruled and directed by a guiding hand. 

 The result is that their predominating characteristics are 

 extreme selfishness, want of judgment, and love of pleasure, 

 from their wealth being entirely the result of their individual 

 energy, and extreme resentment to submission, because their 

 lives permit of little self -decision and call for little self-control. 



They suffer from want of mental range, because their 

 occupations are devoid of the necessity for reasoning out the 

 detailed work of life; because for centuries all reasoning, in 

 all the more complicated undertakings of life, has been done 

 for them, they have only been required to think of the details 

 of work. This makes them narrow-minded, obstinate and 

 unreasonable, and it is a question if, as a class, they will ever 

 be wise enough to govern themselves unselfishly, or free from 

 looking at facts through narrow-minded spectacles. But in 

 the past, and for ages yet to come, it has only been those who 

 have exerted the most superior energy, self-reliance and judg- 

 ment who have become fit to rule. But it is impossible to work 

 at the maximum amount of energy for more than three gene- 

 rations without a reaction setting in and rest becoming a 

 necessity. Hence as the Epoch of Hope marks the period of 

 evolution devoted to the production of energy, it is one long 

 bitter warfare between all these classes, for superiority in 

 physical existence against non-existence, according to their 

 perfection in energy. Therefore, throughout the Epoch of 



