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 nature, to whom the ideal is a myth, and whose mind 

 remains unpermeated by the teaching of history in 

 regard to the advent of a spiritual evolution among 

 men, who are still willing to be fed on the husks of such 

 dead philosophies. Contrast for the moment this atti- 

 tude with one of the sayings of the Master : " It is not 

 the will of your Father that one of these little ones 

 should perish." Try the effect of this contrast upon 

 men and women brought up under Christian influences, 

 and mark ! all, without exception, members of the 

 strongest and most forward races at the present day 

 shout the Nietzscheian doctrine — " the weaker go to 

 the wall, and we shall help them to," and listen to the 

 howls of execration : whisper the other, revealing the 

 love of the Father for " these little ones," and behold 

 the tears rise in the heart and gather to the eyes of the 

 fathers and mothers of the generation to be ; and why ? 

 Because in their inner consciousness they realise in- 

 tuitively they have listened to a truth transcendent 

 in its appeal, not only to their paternal and maternal 

 instincts, but full of that love which is a law of the 

 Eternal, and which is moulding all the generations of 

 men wherever the influence of the teachings of Jesus 

 has reached directly or indirectly. It is the power and 

 universality of this appeal which gives us proof of the 

 fact that in man there is the germ, awaiting the 

 fertilising power of Christian altruism to awaken it to 

 full vital vigour and activity ; and demonstrates to us 

 the method designed by the Eternal for the accom- 

 plishment of the higher spiritual evolution of humanity. 

 It is proof also of the immanence of the Divine, re- 

 quiring only " the light which has enlightened the dark- 

 ness of the world " to enable it to shine forth with ever- 

 increasing lustre until its radiance illuminates all 

 within its orbit. It would be well if the mechanistic 

 philosophers — those who still remain — would direct 



