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he is strong enough to defy the whole world, the treatles have not as much value as the scrap of paper on which they are written ?
Neither superstition, nur general education on materialistic lines, will then, be found adequate to change the hearts of men. What is required is the knowledge of the Laws of Nature that come into operation in connection with our emotions, and how they affect the soul, and the relations of nations, and communi ties of men. For, once it is recognized that the Soul is an entity whose welfare is cf paramount importance, and which is affected by its emotions, and beliefs - beneficially by the emotions of Love and most harmlully by those of selfishness ard hatred-men will certainly refrain from doing what is harmful, and allopt the Rule of Love.
Now my point is that in order to impress a rational mind, like that of a modero boy or girl, you have to convince him or her of the need for peacefulness, and alter his or her emotional nature destroying the element of savageness, and bar. barian greed from the heart. A rationally inclined mind cau never for all times, be impressed with dogma, and ill-rounded reason; and without the training, and control of the emotions, it is not possible to make a man a real lover of peare. And th: test of the rial love of peace is that one should che:rfully ofler hjs cloak also, when his coat is claimed at lar,
Let me say one word more as to the difference between the modern thought, and Religion when properly understoolMoleru thought has confined its attention to the world of the Senses, where brute nature is found to be red in tooth, and claw. It knows nothing of the Kingdom of the Soul or Kingdom of God which is within. It therefore from its own point of view righly points out the main characteristic of life which is the struggle for existence, and the survival of the fittest. There is no question of moral fitness here; but only of the physical, and mental that is to say, intellectual fitness.
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