The Discoveries Of Modern Science Do Not

To Act And Act Wisely When The Time For Action Comes, To Wait And Wait Patiently When It Is Time For Repose, Put Man In Accord With The Rising And Falling Tides (of Affairs). So That With Nature And Law At His Back, And Truth And Beneficence As His Beacon Light, He May Accomplish Wonders. Ignorance Of This Law Results In Periods Of Unreasoning Enthusiasm On The One Hand, And Depression On The Other. Man Thus Becomes The Victim Of The Tides When He Should Be Their Master.

The Idea Of Passing One's Whole Life In Moral Idleness, And Having One's Hardest Work And Duty Done By Another-whether God Or Man-is Most Revolting To Us, As It Is Most Degrading To Human Dignity.

But, If The Knowledge Of The Occult Powers Of Nature Opens The Spiritual Sight Of Man, Enlarges His Intellectual Faculties, And Leads Him Unerringly To A Profounder Veneration For The Creator, On The Other Hand Ignorance, Dogmatic Narrow-mindedness, And A Childish Fear Of Looking To The Bottom Of Things, Invariably Leads To Fetish-worship And Superstition.

Civilization May Progress, Human Nature Will Remain The Same Throughout All Ages.

It Is, Then, By Those Shadows Of The Hoary Past And Their Fantastic Silhouettes On The External Screen Of Every Religion And Philosophy, That We Can, By Checking Them As We Go Along, And Comparing Them, Trace Out Finally The Body That Produced Them.