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say that modern civilization will be none the worse, and all the better, for giving up the use of fish, flesh, fowl and eggs; for keeping down the lust for thrills'; for placing limits upon the growing ceaseless whir of mechanized transport; for adopting a policy of 'live and let live'; and for refraining from sanctioning fashions which only beautify the outward encasement of matter, which is, in reality, the prison of the soul, but which involve real unbearable pain on those whose lives are taken for furnishing furs and plumes. And it will lose nothing by stopping shooting, hunting and fishing! Cinemas and theatres, instead of pandering to the insatiable thirst for thrills, may be utilized for the dramatization of such subjects as are elevating to the soul. Music and art may be improved by the giving up of the excessively high valuations placed upon the talents of men and women. Natural sciences will be taught, as they must be to enable humanity to retain its privilege of rationalism; but the Science of Salvation must be taught first of all. In a word, we shall leave out evil; retain the good. Let the spirit of right faith preside over the affairs of men, and we shall have a civilization which we may be proud of and which will pay us back in regard to peace and happiness and the progress of the soul infinitely more than we can calculate on paper.
JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
It only remains to say with reference to the hidden sense of the scriptural text that the best method of getting at the significations of the allegorical scriptures, and especially of the teaching of the Bible, is to grasp the cumulative view-a bird's eye view of the system first of all. My advice to the reader is this: get hold
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