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children to the best advantage, it will be necessary for the 

 leaders of educational and religious reforms to give more con- 

 sideration to the sciences of history and evolution, and to 

 obtain a more logical grip of the main truths of revelation 

 so as to be better able to educate our children not in knowledge 

 and culture, but in higher ideas of what are our duties to 

 others, not ourselves, and the better to develop production 

 in the highest manner possible, and so to formulate such 

 national advancement as will make each one of us the most 

 useful units in production regardless of colour, race or creed, 

 leaving the laws of the survival of the fittest to decide the 

 points of individual success or failure. One of these measures 

 must be to nationalise the science of medicine, so that the 

 state will supply free medical aid, which will greatly assist 

 in converting medical science into one of prevention rather 

 than cure. 



Now with the light that my Table III. throws upon the 

 course of evolution, it appears to me that the first duty of 

 Religion is to destroy the past bigotry and superstition that 

 set one class of the community against the other, by no 

 longer condemning unheard all those whose teachings or 

 beliefs do not agree with their own particular teaching thus 

 setting one creed against another, but must try to conform 

 to the laws of nature, which are the laws of God. Nations 

 must learn to join hands in spreading commerce throughout 

 the world instead of disputing with each other over bounda- 

 ries, and by war prolonging national hate and animosity, just 

 because being a different race they hold different ideas as to 

 what constitutes rights of ownership, trade or commerce, and 

 different ideals of life and existence. Religion and Science 

 must endeavour to form a common ground on which they can 

 all agree to meet on the main points of revelation and mutual 

 interests, and realise that their duty is to assist each other to 

 enable the different races and social classes of mankind to live 

 together under the greatest possible tolerance, admitting that 

 any religion that will enable a man to live in peace with his 

 fellow-men, and act justly to his neighbour, and acknowledge 

 his dependance on God, and the social rulers who administer 

 the laws of the land in which he chances to live, must of 

 necessity be the best form of religion for that particular indi- 

 vidual, but need not of necessity be the best suited to his 



