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In the preceding verse, however, he has given us the key- 

 note to the future life, which he speaks of as — 



The land of Light and Beauty, where no bud of promise dies; 

 and then continues — 



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There, through all the vast Empyrean, 

 Wafted, as on gales Hesperian, 

 Comes the stirring cry of ' Progress! ' telling of the yet to be. 

 Tuneful as a seraph's lyre, 

 ' Come up higher ! Come up higher ! ' 

 Cry the hosts of holy angels : ' learn the heavenly Masonry : 

 Life is one eternal progress : enter then the Third Degree ; — 

 Ye who' long for light and wisdom seek the Inner Mystery/ " 



Conclusion 



In accordance with the views expounded in a former work, 

 Man's Place in the Universe, I have fully discussed the evi- 

 dences in plant and animal life indicating a prevision and defi- 

 nite preparation of the earth for Man — an old doctrine, 

 supposed to be exploded, but which,, to all who accept the view 

 that the universe is not a chance product, will, I hope, no 

 longer seem to be outside the realm of scientific inquiry. 



Still more important is the argument, set forth in some 

 detail, showing the absolute necessity of a creative and directive 

 power and mind as exemplified in the wonderful phenomena 

 of growth, of organisation, and fundamentally of cell-structure 

 and of life itself. This view is strengthened by a considera- 

 tion of the nature of the elements which alone render life- 

 development possible. 



Herbert Spencer enforced the idea of " variously conditioned 

 modes of the universal immanent force " as the cause of all 

 material and mental phenomena, and as the " Unknown Reality 

 which underlies both Spirit and flatter." I have here ex- 

 pressed the same views in a more concrete and intelligible 



