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to be 'divine,' will have nothing but a historic 

 existence. The movement to put Science and 

 Humanitarianism in place of Tradition and 

 Savagery, which is so weak, languishing, and 

 neglected to-day, is a movement which has for its 

 ultimate destiny the conquest of the Human 

 Species. 



XII. Conclusion. 



All beings are ends; no creatures are means. 

 All beings have not equal rights, neither have all 

 men ; but all have rights. The Life Process is the 

 End — not man, nor any other animal temporarily 

 privileged to weave a world's philosophy. Non- 

 human beings were not made for human beings 

 any more than human beings were made for non- 

 human beings. Just as the sidereal spheres were 

 once supposed by the childish mind of man to be 

 unsubstantial satellites of the earth, but are known 

 by man's riper understanding to be worlds with 

 missions and materialities of their own, and of 

 such magnitude and number as to render terres- 

 trial insignificance frightful, so the billions that 

 dwell in the seas, fields, and atmospheres of the 

 earth were in like manner imagined by the illiterate 

 children of the race to be the mere trinkets of 

 men, but are now known by all who can interpret 

 the new revelation to be beings with substantially 

 the same origin, the same natures, structures, and 

 occupations, and the same general rights to life and 

 happiness, as we ourselves. 



In their phenomena of life the inhabitants of 



