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stinct of the child, combined with the instinct and reason 

 of the parent, is just sufficient to secure the perpetuation 

 of the human race, as that of the fish is only enough to 

 insure the continuation of that race. In the fish, instinct 

 is large and without reason; in the child, there is little 

 instinct and great reason, but at first the reason is in the 

 parent. 



In this paper I have tried to show and trace out, as 

 well as I could, the progress and direction of evolution 

 on our earth, as shown in its threefold or parallel lines. 

 Herbert Spencer and other great students believe that 

 evolution moves in cycles; that our universe has had its 

 birth, its growth, and will have its decadence and dis- 

 solution when all parts will be returned to cosmical 

 dust, from which it came. It seems clear to me that from 

 the beginning of the present cycle, millions, and, per- 

 haps, billions of years ago, there has been an unbroken 

 continuity of progress from nebulous potentiality to our 

 present system of sun, planets and satellites; from cosmic 

 dust to our *arth with its teeming life of plant and ani- 

 mal. I am compelled to believe that our universe, Avith 

 its wheeling orbs, some of them, probably clothed with 

 life and beauty, as our earth is, has been the result of 

 one unchangeable, eternal and universal law, and that 

 behind, beyond and over it all, has been and is an in- 

 finite and eternal energy, the great inscrutable Spirit 

 Power. Possibly in the future there may be modes of 

 being of which we now can have no conception; there 

 may be mind as much above and beyond our comprehen- 

 sion as the mind of a Spencer would be beyond the com- 

 prehension of a savage. 



Herbert Spencer says in the closing sentence of his 

 Synthetic Philosophy: "The ultimate man will be one 

 whose private requirements coincide with public ones. 

 He will be that manner of man who, in spontaneously 

 fulfilling his own nature incidentally performs the func- 

 tions of a social unit, and yet is only enabled so to fulfill 

 his own nature by all others doing the like." 



