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world has ever produced. We find these factors have played 

 a very large part in making the greatest varieties of manners, 

 customs, habits and class to be found in any one nation. India 

 is a nation numbering its people by hundreds of millions, and 

 in a variety of races by dozens, and its nationalities are more 

 numerous than any other country on the face of the earth. 

 So are its creed and customs ; yet they have dwelt together for 

 centuries. Hence we find Christian, Turk, Persian, 

 Mahomedan, Buddhist, Pagan, White, Black or Yellow, 

 all living together in harmony. Because the attractiveness of 

 its climates, richness of the soil, Have made it suitable as a 

 means of support and possible for a variety of races to exist 

 under varied conditions of production and subsistence. 



Again, in America we find the same thing for the 

 same reasons. Hence nations must take this lesson to heart 

 and realise that Governments, like Religions, must learn to 

 give and take in the future, and remember the stupid days of 

 hard and fast dogmas are days of the past, as also are racial 

 distinctions, for civilisation is fast destroying the distinction 

 of colour. Evolution teaches us above all other facts that 

 life, and life only, is lasting all else is one continual change 

 of destruction on to construction and reconstruction. 

 The life of God and his Trinity and its image in mankind is 

 the one thing that never alters. The power of energy of the 

 ancients is but the immortal energy of to-day. 



Governments, like Religion, must turn over a new leaf 

 in the book of evolution, and realise that the making of the 

 future must be remodelled from the making of the past by 

 adjusting the past to up-to-date advancements; and, instead 

 of one nation warring with another for larger realms in which 

 to carry on commerce on the restricted lines of each nation, 

 creed or as has been the usage in the past. Each nation 

 must make its laws to suit its particular race, creed or 

 clan, and hedging these countries and confines round with 

 barbed wire entanglements of protective duties and religious 

 dogmas, enforced by huge armies and navies, is a thing of the 

 past. We must in future buy and sell or exchange territories 

 as we do the lands within them. Commerce has grown too 

 big a girl to be kept in the schoolroom of ignorance or na- 

 tional restrictions, the outcome of still greater ignorance. 



Now, as man gains more perfect mind, such absurd and out- 



