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education that will evolve these virtues that we may become 

 perfect enough in time to forgive our neighbour's sins so long 

 as they do not injure others. This is the highest form of true 

 virtue and charity, and is what Christ means to point out 

 when He tells us to leave our offering at the foot of the altar 

 and seek the forgiveness of our neighbour before we make 

 sacrifice to God. It is no use giving alms to the poor with 

 one hand, and, by extortionate profits, unjust actions and 

 preferences, to take double the alms away with the other. 



Nor, on the other hand, is it less unjust or less 

 evil to make laws that, by fixing wages in an arbitrary 

 manner, may lead to still greater avarice on the part of the 

 poor by inducing the servant to have no qualms of conscience 

 should he give a poor day's work for a good day's wage. We 

 must aim at co-operation between science and religion, master 

 and servant, capital and wealth or wages ; unions for distribu- 

 tion of employment ; and it is by Charity such as this we can 

 alone hope to dethrone the golden calf of mercantile Greed, 

 which is the same calf that was worshipped by the Hebrew 

 and the Jew, which the Mosaic people destroyed when they 

 brought the commandments of the Persian into Palestine, 

 together with their belief in one God and his Trinity. If 

 we would advance during this coming Epoch of Charity we 

 must learn to promote greater co-operation between the dif- 

 ferent classes of society, and the formation on a much more 

 general scale of co-operative means of livelihood, so as to 

 benefit our less fortunate neighbour. He in his turn, as he 

 becomes enlightened and more generous, will realise that 

 poverty, like sin, is a blessing not a curse, and so come to 

 venerate not envy (as at present) the superior wealth of his 

 more energetic neighbour. He in his turn is now beginning 

 to realise that true happiness lies not in the pleasure that 

 wealth and ease can buy, but in the reaction upon us of the 

 happiness we confer on others. In this manner we may bring 

 the world to the Sixteenth stage or day of use in place of 

 abuse of Nature, or creation of brotherly love on the 

 seventeenth day by the prevention of crime so producing the age 

 of comfort. This leaves only four stages or days to be 

 evolved, namely : Joy, Pleasure, Happiness and Heaven. 



For when man can become perfect enough to : 



