perceive democracy and religion in their correct sense to consist of a knowledge of the principles of conduct necessary to that virtuous repose of mind so pleasing to the eye of Divinity. When the reaction of felt-out mind on human life and thought is understood this discouragement will cease through the apperception that enlarges our perception and stimulates the discernment of ultimate triumph through properly directed warfare of the mental species.

This subtle influence coming in the name of discouragement and limiting perception to expediency has succeeded in lulling to sleep the awareness of the value of legislative government and as a result the greatest menace to our democratic institutions is now disguised under the name of efficiency, which has taken the form of substituting personal efficiency for legislative bodies in local affairs. This being established, it would form a precedent for the substitution of personal efficiency for state and national sovereignty. Besides, this is taking place just when we are beginning to learn to use this legislative idea for which we have sacrificed so much. This is the nature and method of that influence ever present to make an excuse for itself, plead its own advantages and veil the immaterial principle which constitutes the earthly realization of the Kingdom of Heaven.

The development of the thought-out faculties, like the development of the felt-out faculties, is the only process of developing mental species; the unused faculties decay. The saving of institutional substance by delegating power to individuals, which is the effect of thinking in money instead of principles and ideas, looms large to bodily sense and bodily vision but is a poor

recompense for the loss of ethical Substance derived from the exercise of the faculties. Only through reason and correlation as instanced in parliamentary practice can we continue to avail ourselves of the invisible Substance which unconsciously attends our efforts and becomes the countervailing influence to human absolutism-inspires human wisdom with divine intelligence and contitutes the species made in the image and likeness of God.

CHAPTER XXI

ARRESTED SPECIES

In considering the subject of arrested species three distinct factors predominate. They are luxury, belief and Revelation. While environment is a vitally important factor we will find, as we proceed, that the three factors, luxury, belief and Revelation comprise a large part of what is considered environment.

Under the law of favored races a species will develop a condition suited to its environment. However, when the species has fitted itself to its environment it has reached a state of luxury that forbids further development. This is quite evident, for when a species has fitted itself, or in other words adapted itself to its environment the struggle for existence ceases and as a result the adaptation or appropriation of the Ultimate Element likewise ceases. While the law of favored races will produce a species some change in conditions mental or physical is necessary to cause a variation whereby a higher development becomes possible.

When a race has developed sufficient intelligence to supply itself with the necessities of life and also defend itself from invasion there ceases to be any further demand on its faculties and as a consequence the faculties cease to develop. This law of sufficiency applies to man as well as animals. A species evolved to fit its environment will merely continue this fitting until some change in its environment requires it to adjust itself to a new condition. If the species develops the faculty of adjust

ment it will survive. The faculty of adjustment is the most useful of all of the faculties, for it is evident that without this faculty a species or race cannot adjust itself to a changing condition. The slave owning races are examples that furnish us unlimited material from which we may learn useful lessons. Slave owning races, whether ants or men, never advance beyond the point we have referred to as the law of sufficiency and when this condition has been interfered with the race has suffered retardation, decline and arrestment. Sometimes they have lost all relation to, and consciousness of, their previous state. The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans are notable examples.

Of course, in considering the struggle for existence we must not confuse the natural and relatively peaceful struggle of nature with the struggle for existence where intent and purpose have been consciously or unconsciously added to this struggle. Undoubtedly nature appears cruel to our thought-out methods, purposes and desires which often contradict nature, but to nature itself, nature is never cruel. Too often man has attempted to conceal his own venality and human ambition by giving them a natural significance. Evolution is never violent and revolutions that have been attributed to evolution have been the result of man's failure to observe the natural processes of evolution and adjust himself accordingly. The necessity of adaptation presupposes that faculty of adjustment necessary to the maintenance of a state of equilibrium in a specializing race and is effected by growth which is continually demanding new adjustments. Luxury and material sufficiency being inimical to growth the ruling class

fails to keep up with the progress of the struggling element.

Paternalism, specialization and protection must terminate in either an arrested race or revolution. The law of progress is the effect of the appropriation of Substance which is the law of God. Where men yield to the influence of inspiration progress becomes an irresistible power before which the conventional lies compacted out of the compensation of natural, thought-out customs must go down. The inspired man struggling for material, intellectual and spiritual luxury which he sees others enjoying, will overtake those who have become surfeited with these luxuries and as a consequence have ceased to develop the faculties through which they derive these luxuries.

In human processes so closely allied to nature there are comforting incidents and compensating accidents. Conspicuous among these are romance and mythology and so closely are they linked to the natural that many of us who have wrought long and earnestly in the inspired thought-out world when wearied of meticulous precision turn to them for comfort. But growth is effected by anticipating the real. However, when we attempt to conceive life an exact science and the Holy Ghost its sufficiency there is a sense of weariness. But we must remember the law of compensation attends all progress and completeness must be sufficient.

The beauties of the natural thought-out world being largely belief we must advance beyond that point and to do so the effect of believing must be overcome. We have said in this work that belief was the one profane word of language. Just as physical nature discards the