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 ARGUMENT TO 
 
 ERRORS OF THOUGHT 
 
 -IN- 
 
 SCIENCE, RELIGION AND SOCIAL 
 
 LIFE 
 
 — AND— 
 
 THEIR EVIL INFLUENCES FROM PRE-ALPHABETIC AGES 
 TO THE PRESENT DAY 
 
 -WITH— 
 
 PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR 
 AND THE DANGERS OF MODERN CIVILIZATION 
 
 By ST. GEORGE 
 
 FOR SALE BY 
 
 PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY 
 
 PUBUSHERS 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
 
COPYRIC 
 
 
ARGUMENT TO ERRORS OF THOUGHT 
 By St. George. 
 
 In view of the fact that several volumes w^ill be required to 
 examine the career of Erring Thought in past and present civil- 
 izations, it may not be amiss to preface the subject with a brief 
 argument in order to indicate its drift and importance. 
 
 This introductory sketch and the following volumes about 
 to be published are written in the hope of elucidating the fact 
 that many great evils in civilized life arise in errors of thought — 
 in faulty and superficial ways of judging the causes of existing 
 conditions and of reasoning from cause to consequence. The 
 faulty work of the mind, and especially of the thinking faculties, 
 develops itself into great popular delusions, which destroy social 
 peace and welfare. 
 
 Connected with this elucidation is the attempt to prove that 
 the evils so arising cannot be averted save by correcting the erring 
 ways of thinking into which modern methods of instruction lead 
 the public mind. If errors of thought are at the root of growing 
 evils, this root should be laid bare in order to make possible the 
 eradication of the evil. If modern education disseminates errors 
 of thought which promote the growth of evil in civilized life, or 
 even if it only fails to prepare the public mind properly for the 
 work of civilization, should its errors and shortcomings not be 
 corrected? 
 
 ' The errors of thought which deserve particular attention at 
 the present time are those which are fostered in educational in- 
 stitutions, and which find their way into legislation and admin- 
 istration of social and national affairs. 
 
 Intellectual development controls social development. The 
 intellect is the superstructure of natural intelligence, and a pro- 
 duct of that consciousness which can be vested in language. 
 There is much in human consciousness, which cannot be so vest- 
 ed but which nevertheless plays an important part in civilized 
 life. The human knowing powers are of a twofold kind, inas- 
 much as language divides elementary consciousness or natural 
 intelligence into two parts, leaving one part out of consideration 
 as unwritten consciousness, and converting the balance into 
 
what is known as knowledge. That part which is known as 
 knowledge constitutes the intellect, and but little of its work 
 deserves the name of truth. Knowledge and truth are very dif- 
 ferent things. The knowledge which is true is so only of facts 
 in the way of thinking, but the facts of thinking differ very wide- 
 ly from the facts of living. Knowledge of what is not life is 
 abundant, and true in a way; it is relatively true, but relative 
 truth is a superficial kind of truth, and differs from Truth as a 
 stuffed animal differs from a living one. Knowledge of life at 
 the present stage of intellectual development is one-sided and de- 
 lusive; it is little more than a matter of opinion, such as the 
 Thinking Ego produces by guessing at the active causes of hu- 
 man existence. The intellectual powers which control civiliza- 
 tion may be fairly described as an incoherent, non-organic mass 
 of opinions. 
 
 The opinions which rule civilization are not often rationally 
 conceived. They originate largely in misconceptions of the causes 
 which sustain or disturb the development of civilization. Faulty 
 ways of thinking, learnedly established by systems of so-called 
 logic and rhetoric, convert not only faulty conceptions of Fact 
 into persistent errors of judgment, but they mislead the best in- 
 tentions of the mind, to substitute hollow theories or opinions 
 for needed knowledge of Fact, for that thorough knowledge of 
 the causes active in nature and human nature which generate 
 life and sustain its healthful development in individual and na- 
 tion. 
 
 The causes which sustain or disturb the healthful growth of 
 civilization may be properly called Fact, for the sake of brevity. 
 Fact, so conceived, comprizes a multiplicity of causes which 
 should be known in all their actions, reactions and counterac- 
 tions, in order to make the judgment of the thinking mind with 
 regard to Right and Wrong something better than a mere matter 
 of opinion. To know this or that feature or phase in the multi- 
 plicity, ramification and entanglement of causes is not knowing 
 Fact thoroughly. 
 
 To know Fact thoroughly, the thinking faculties must have 
 a well defined footing" in the consciousness which accompanies 
 the powers of life in their organic procedures — in development 
 and evolution, in envelopment and involution — and this footing 
 is properly called the human understanding. It is this under- 
 standing which needs particular attention on the part of the edu- 
 cators who presume to prepare the human mind for the work of 
 civilization. The modern system of education slights and even 
 ignores the powers of the human understanding, and as a con- 
 sequence, produces a kind of intellectuality which is rich in opin- 
 
 II 
 
ion but poor in thorough knowledge of life, of its origin, its mo- 
 tivity, its powers to build up or destroy civilization. 
 
 A clear understanding of the principles of procedure which 
 generate the powers of life and control the forces of death in the 
 process of nature is primarily required in order to judge any act 
 of nature or of human nature as it is in itself and in its bearings 
 upon life and death — upon fitness of survival. Without. 
 a thorough understanding of the active principles in natural 
 causation, the thinking mind cannot proceed surefootedly to 
 reason from cause to consequence; it cannot deal rationally with 
 the Gist of Fact and the ever changeful problems of civilized life; 
 it can only guess at the workings of natural causation; it can 
 only form superficial, fragmentary and uncertain judgments, us- 
 ually called opinions; and by the light of these it can only ex- 
 periment in the affairs of civilization. 
 
 A one-sided and fragmentary knowledge of causation, such 
 as can be obtained in the conventional channels of enlighten- 
 ment, does not rationallv develop the natural understanding of 
 Fact. 
 
 The development of a thorough knowledge of Fact in the 
 thinking mind may appear to be a difificult task to accomplish, 
 but the apparent difficulties are not insurmountable. To make 
 the natural causes, active in nature and human nature, thorough- 
 ly known, is only a matter of providing the natural knowing 
 powers of mind with two requirements, first, with efficient 
 means to the end of developing the human understanding, and 
 secondly, with the ability of using these means efficiently in 
 both sensible and reasonable ways. The providing of these 
 means and the ability to use them is an educational requirement 
 in all great civilizations. Our intellectual ancestry, even in pre- 
 alphabetic times, has provided these means and also the formulas 
 for their proper use, and later ages have embodied both in the so- 
 called sacred or testamentary writings. Unfortunately, the intellec- 
 tual achievements of former generations are not now intelligible to 
 us; they cannot be rendered into modern language by the ways 
 and means so far employed in attempted translation and elucida- 
 tion. 
 
 Modern systems of education employ no adequate means 
 to develop the power of the human understanding. Modern 
 science deals only with the powers of perception, and modern 
 theology only with the misconceptions of original causes or of 
 sacred writ. Perceptions and conceptions are faculties which 
 take an indirect hold of Fact, and their work differs from that 
 of the understanding, which has a direct or immediately conscious- 
 connection with the causes active in nature and life. The under- 
 standing furnishes immediate knowledge of nature and natural 
 
 in 
 
causation, while the faculties of perception and conception fur- 
 nish only auxiliary means of knowing, as the etymology of the 
 words indicates. Antiquity clearly distinguished the difference, 
 and evolved language accordingly. Modern learning overlooks 
 this difference and defines the words derived from antiquity in 
 other than their original meanings. 
 
 Philology has been at fault; it has persistently misconceived 
 the natural connection between language and the various factors 
 in human consciousness and self-consciousness, and it has mis- 
 represented the laws of language in antiquity recognized and es- 
 tablished. 
 
 Modern philology is an 'ology, and like all 'ologies, it fails 
 to consciously connect the thinking faculties with the living 
 powers, or our thought-and word-knowledge with our living con- 
 sciousness of causes, active in nature and human nature. Modern 
 philology lacks all understanding of the connection between lan- 
 guage and the causes of life, and the human consciousness of these 
 causes. The living consciousness of natural causes is a funda- 
 mental equipment of the human mind; it is the raw material of 
 all knowledge which, by educational training of thinking and 
 speaking, should be properly elaborated into explicit knowledge 
 of Fact, — of natural causation and its principles of procedure. If 
 this raw material of knowledge is not so elaborated, then the 
 effect which education produces in the mind is not what it ought 
 to be; it is not productive of the knowledge needed to make social 
 life a success in extended civilization. Intellectuality may be its 
 product, biit it is a type of intellectuality which has no footing 
 in the consciousness of facts which are acts of nature — no un- 
 derstanding of natural causation. 
 
 Knowledge of natural causes is a first requirement of the 
 mind which claims Free-agency powess and the ability and right 
 to control the affairs of social life. 
 
 It seems as if sufficient knowledge of natural causes was 
 lacking in all branches of learning, save those which concern the 
 bread and butter sciences, for these do not require any knowledge 
 of the inner activity of our nature; they deal only with the outer 
 interaction of things — with phaenomena and conditions, regard- 
 less of the invisible causes which produce them. 
 
 Our great industrial advancement during the last hundred 
 years has made Christian civilizations the predominant powers 
 on earth. Our industrial advance is due to special sense-develop- 
 ment, but not to the proper development of our intrinsic know- 
 ing powers, nor to proper character-evolution. Sense provides 
 the ample means which we have, but civilized character is re- 
 quired to make right and reasonable use of the means provided by 
 
 IV 
 
sense. This character should be evolved by educational methods. 
 No efficient effort in the way of character-elevation is being- 
 made in modern life. 
 
 Intellectuality as .a sense-developer has done great work; as 
 a character-evolver it is still medieval in all its branches; in fact, 
 it is the product of an irrational, alphabetical over-development 
 of those thinking faculties which ignore or misrepresent the living 
 powers. 
 
 Irrational opinions, by education disseminated and by legis- 
 lation formed into standards of right, are assuming control of 
 social and political affairs throughout Christian civilization, but 
 especially in these United States. 
 
 All opinions ever advanced regarding education, legislation, 
 finance, tariff, trusts, taxation, etc., are as fau/lty as are the opin- 
 ions with regard to religious faith; all are unduly diverse, con- 
 flicting and even contradictory, because they are formed with- 
 out thorough knowledge of fundamental facts, and without re- 
 gard to the inner workings of those natural causes which evolve 
 the powers of life in general and the mental power of human life 
 in particular, and which must be known to the Free-agency mind 
 so that it may be able to distinguish that which supports the 
 order of life from that which disturbs it — Right from Wrong-, 
 Good from Evil, etc. "'? 
 
 The highest judges in the land differ in their opinions of 
 Right or Wrong with regard to matters of the greatest impor- 
 tance to civilization. They do so because their natural under- 
 standing of causes has not been fully and fairly developed. Their 
 natural powers of discernment have not been evolved; they hiake 
 arbitrary distinctions in their way of reasoning; they reason in 
 accordance with ready-made ideas and prejudices. They make 
 distinctions in the way of thinking which are not differences in 
 Fact; they pronounce one Trust unlawful and they consider an- 
 other Trust, formed in the same way and operating in accor- 
 dance with the same methods, thoroughly lawful. They intro- 
 duce their contradictory opinions of good and evil into their de- 
 cisions, and they claim to base these decisions upon reason, al- 
 though their reasoning is only an arbitrary procedure in the 
 process of thought, which differs widely from the principles of 
 procedure which sustain the order of life. If the supreme judg- 
 ing power in a nation can so gravely err, what can be expected 
 from the average mind which presumably rules the policy of the 
 nation by its votes. 
 
 V 
 
To know the causes active in nature and human life is a very 
 different thing from knowing the ideas by which modern learn- 
 ing attempts to represent these causes. The ideal picture is a 
 very different thing from the active fact which it aims to repre- 
 sent. It is only a knowledge of superficial aspects of Fact, which 
 differs from the fact as a photograph differs from the thing pho- 
 tographed. The aspect may furnish an outer view of Fact, but it 
 does not bring into the light of consciousness the natural causes 
 active within existing things. 
 
 The natural knowing powers of the human mind stand 
 immediately connected with the powers of life; they have their 
 root in the very Gist of natural causation, and they have also a 
 branch-development which is inseparably connected with that 
 root. In all this, the natural knowing powers differ from the 
 learnedly developed thinking faculties and powers, and hence the 
 capacities of the human mind differ from and transcend those 
 of modern learning. Modern learning is yet in its swaddling 
 clothes as compared with the Great Learning of pre-Tartaric 
 China and that recorded in the pre-alphabetic vestiges of art. 
 
 Our civilizations have passed through long eras of intellectual 
 retrogression, the nadir of which we have but just passed. Dae- 
 monized minds, and not humane intellects, have ruled in civiliza- 
 tion during historic ages, and made the earth a graveyard of 
 ruined and slaughtered nations. Unfeeling and perverted intel- 
 lectuality has been the curse of all historic civilizations. Erring, 
 ill-disciplined, characterless Thought has always pushed Living 
 Reason from the throne of mind and made arbitrary force the 
 ruling power in civilizations. From the dawn of history to the 
 present times have the powers of thought and language been sub- 
 jected to the character-perverting influence of faulty systems of 
 alphabetical education and instruction, and as a result continuous 
 warfare and internecine strife have been the destroyers of 
 nations. 
 
 The false lights of consciousness which fragmentary alpha- 
 betical training always develops in the thinking and talking in- 
 tellectuals, have never failed in destroying the virtues of the civ- 
 ilizing instinct, pre-alphabetically evolved in the human mind. 
 
 Language, the original civilizer of mankind, has always be- 
 come a daemonizing power in the control of thinking egotists 
 whom alphabetical learning has ever produced and still pro- 
 duces. 
 
 The Thinking Ego. alphabetically enlightened, has always 
 tortured and tyrannized over the living and feeling self, and 
 thereby undermined and destroyed the order of life — the health 
 and well-being in individual and nation. 
 
 VI 
 
We have but just emerged from the darkest of intellectu- 
 ally benighted ages — the so-called Middle Ages of the Chris- 
 tian cult. Our intellectual ancestry of medieval times were vis- 
 ionary and daemonized bigots who practiced, suffered or coun- 
 tenanced all sorts of wrongs against the rights of man. We may 
 think that we are now proceeding surefootedly in the way of 
 peace and prosperity; but if we so think we may err. The causes 
 which have many times ruined great and prosperous civiliza- 
 tions are still active among us. With these causes we must make 
 ourselves familiar, by going beyond the reach of modern learn- 
 ing, for modern learning ignores them. 
 
 Modern learning of all kinds has the one great defect that it 
 detaches the human thinking powers from the living powers and 
 thereby makes thought a self-sufficient factor of mind and a 
 manufacturer of theories and opinions. Modern learning does 
 marvelous work in the workshop of thought, but it does not 
 know the natural ways and means by which the Thinking Ego 
 can enter the workshop of nature to ascertain the workings of 
 the causes active within. 
 
 The intellectualized mind cannot rationally deal wjith the 
 requirements of civilized life if it does not understand the work- 
 ings of the causes active in the process of nature and especially 
 the causes of human development and evolution. It is necessary 
 to make these causes fully and fairly known as they are in them- 
 selves, and not merely as they may be represented by this or 
 that class of thinkers or alleged truth-tellers. 
 
 Education, which develops no truer lights of consciousness in 
 the public mind than are either the relative truths of scientific 
 empirics or the conflicting God-ideas of theologians, does not 
 serve our great and growing civilization well; it leads the mind to 
 form opinions without the fundamentally necessary knowledge 
 of Fact. ■ The opinions so formed are liable to work up what an- 
 tiquity knew as a "war of words" for opinion's sake — an undue 
 conflict of learnedly established opinions which cannot be har- 
 monized among themselves, nor be made to minister effectually 
 to the requirements of civilized life. The conflict of such opin- 
 ions has usually been destructive to social order and peace. 
 
 Learning in all its branches, save those of the bread and but- 
 ter sciences, is only a product of opinions, irrationally conceived 
 and systematically fixed in definitions of words which misrepre- 
 sent the changeful workings of natural causation in all develop- 
 ment and evolution. The process of existence and the eternal 
 
 VII 
 
chain of causation are unknown to all modern thinkers; they are 
 virtually ignored, if not denied, by modern learning, which sub- 
 stitutes its "ologies" for knowledge of Fact. Abstract learning 
 of all kinds is only a conglomerate of opinions, irrationally con- 
 ceived and propagated in ways of hollow, alphabetical talk with- 
 out due knowledge of fundamental facts. There is altogether too 
 much theoretical talk and too little practical understanding in 
 the various schools of thought established by modern learning. 
 The teachings in school and church have an unhappy influ- 
 ence upon the public mind; they lead the thinking faculties away 
 from the natural knowing powers, and they instil ready-made 
 ideas into the mind, instead of evolving the powers of discern- 
 ment in naturally logical ways. Ready-made ideas regarding 
 the right or wrong, the good or evil in social life, are dangerous 
 tools of the mind. They are means to the end of pre-judging 
 Fact, and generally designed for some special purpose. Having 
 served their purpose, they do not pass out of existence, but 
 metamorphose into persistent prejudices. Scattering them- 
 selves over the earth like firebrands, they set ablaze those tenden- 
 cies to popular delusion which have but too often swept civili- 
 zations off the face of the earth. 
 
 Modern learning leads the thinking faculties of the public 
 mind into superficial channels. It talks about phaenomena and 
 conditions, but it utterly fails to elucidate the causes of phae- 
 nomena and conditions. Knowledge of phaenomena and condi- 
 tions is not knowledge of Fact. 
 
 The theologian's talk about primary causes and the scien- 
 tist's talk about secondary causes is hollow, because it ignores 
 natural causes, the causes of life, of development and of evolu- 
 tion. It only represents one-sided and fragmentary aspects of 
 natural causes and ideal pictures of these aspects. This kind of 
 knowledge antiquity described as "shell-knowledge." 
 
 All scientific and theological talk about social conditions is 
 equally hollow if it does not fully and fairly elucidate the causes 
 which produce these conditions, and no learned thinker has ever 
 elucidated these causes in modern life. 
 
 To know conditions as science and theology represent them 
 to the public mind, is not knowing them as they should be known. 
 That which produces conditions of well-being and of suffering 
 in civiljzed life should be made fully and fairly known through 
 the channels of education, for only if the causes of well-being and 
 suffering are known can the thinking mind employ proper means 
 in efficient ways to promote the healthful growth of civilization. 
 
 vni 
 
The Gods have evolved free-agency powers out of the ele- 
 mentary knowing and doing powers of life. The free-agent se- 
 lects the soil and plants his root of character. School and Church 
 water the growing plant; so antiq.uity held. 
 
 The assertion that the causes of human life and develop- 
 ment are unknowable cannot be satisfactory to any free-agent or 
 to any reasonable man. If these causes are unknowable, all 
 knowledge of life, of right and wrong, of good and evil, is 
 necessarily a matter of opinion, formed without sufficient 
 knowledge of Fact, of doubtful value and probably not tru!ly 
 representative of the requirements of life. Why should any 
 mail willingly subject himself to control of any opinionated 
 mind — of any mind that does not understand the workings of 
 natural cause and consequence? 
 
 All talk of truth is hollow if it ignores the organizing powers 
 active in nature and civilization, and productive of life in general 
 and of human intelligence and intellectuality in particular. 
 
 Hollow talk 
 in school and church, in college, university and public life is the 
 danger of the hour. It converts the virtues of natural intelligence 
 into sham intellectuality, and the fulness of natural knowing pow- 
 ers into the superficiality and hoUowness of opinions. The con- 
 version of irrational opinions into laws is fatal error; it is the car- 
 dinal sin of superficial and perverted intellectuality. 
 
 Hollow talk in school separates the thinking consciousness 
 from the living consciousness; it makes the faculties of thought 
 self-sufficient and produces much hollow word-knowledge, all 
 of which misleads the judging and reasoning powers of the mind. 
 Hollow talk in church substitutes diverse and contradictory 
 God and Devil ideas for the living God-consciousness in the 
 human mind; it disseminates absentee God-ideas, which are al- 
 leged to represent some unknowable divinity, distant from our 
 world of life. Our living God-consciousness is the elementary 
 consciousness of the organizing powers of life, mind and thought, 
 active in the process of existence, and this consciousness has vir- 
 tues as a humanizing power which the conflicting God-ideas and 
 current theories of heaven and hell, now circulating as theologi- 
 cally established truths, do not usually sustain. 
 
 Hollow talk in theological colleges misrepresents the testa- 
 mentary records of human experience which depict the causes 
 of human welfare, as well as those of national degeneracy and 
 destruction. 
 
 Hollow talk about sin makes men lose respect for religious 
 leadership, if not also for right and reason. 
 
 Hollow talk about morality fills the hospitals. 
 
 IX 
 
Hollow talk of virtue and justice makes that appear right 
 which, in fact, is not right, and that wrong which is not wrong; 
 it perverts the working order of the mind, substituting imag- 
 inary reasons for the living consciousness of natural causes, and 
 biased opinions for knowledge of Fact, in ways which make all 
 thinking minds more or less irrational; thus hollow talk spreads 
 popular delusions. 
 
 Language is the gift divine which elevates human nature 
 above that of the animal, and makes civilization possible. Hol- 
 low talk is an abuse of human language and a source of evil in 
 civilized life. 
 
 Hollow is all talk of good and evil which ignores or mis- 
 represents the active causes productive of conditions of well-be- 
 ing and suffering. Active causes are the Gist of Fact; conditions 
 and all other appearances are only that which can be said in con- 
 nection with causes in statements of Fact. 
 
 Hollow is all talk of peace and salvation when the existing 
 conditions and the causes which produce them make for war and 
 damnation. The causes, making for either war or peace, must 
 be known and properly dealt with before peace and salvation can 
 be secured. 
 
 Hollow talk of dishonesty among the higher-ups never 
 reaches the seat of evil; it only makes the lowly think that dis- 
 honesty is the stairway to prosperity, and it generates a brood of 
 scheming parasites in civilization. 
 
 Hollow talk of predatory wealth demoralized the masses, en- 
 genders class hatred and spreads the delusion that wealth is 
 necessarily a public enemy when, as a matter of fact, the men 
 of great business ability and wealth are usually the most active 
 factors in national prosperity, and most sincerely interested in 
 public welfare. 
 
 Hollow is all talk which seeks to inspire the public mind 
 with any ready-made opinions, pro or con, regarding this or that 
 factor in civilization. 
 
 Hollow talk substitutes general and particular visions, rela- 
 tively and partially true statements of Fact, for gisty judgments. 
 
 Relative truths are fixed conceptions of one-sided aspects of 
 Fact, true in a way to the point of view, as opinions generally are, 
 but false to the Gist of Fact. Relative truths regarding the 
 causes of life and human welfare are tainted truths. 
 
 Tainted truths, by hollow talk disseminated, are more pow- 
 erful foes to the democratic institutions of this country than is 
 
tainted money. Tainted money may unduly diminish the pros- 
 perity of some factors in a democratic commonwealth, but 
 tainted truths delude the knowing power in the public mind and 
 pervert the character required to make self-government a suc- 
 cess. Democratic institutions of a very extended character, as 
 are ours, cannot maintain themselves long if honest truth and 
 honest money are not the circulating mediums in public life. 
 The care of one hundred millions of people embodied in one social 
 organization, with all the ramifications and entanglements of di- 
 verse and conflicting interests, needs thoroughly rational leader- 
 ship, which the present opinionated talent cannot furnish; in fact, 
 it needs fully enlightened high-character genius, which only an 
 organization devoted solely to the study of national welfare can 
 evolve, if it goes away from and beyond all systems of modern 
 learning and all conventional ways of manufacturing opinions 
 and of dealing in ready-made ideas. 
 
 Hollow talk of circulation-seeking journalism points to un- 
 desirable conditions, the origin of which is not thoroughly under- 
 stood, and calls for reforms which only substitute a new error 
 for an old one. The lazy mind, or the mind busy with its own 
 special affairs, is usually ready to accept ready-made opinions as 
 full and fair statements of Fact, and to be guided and controlled 
 by these opinions, especially when they promise reform and bet- 
 terment of conditions. The acceptance of ready-made opinions 
 makes dupes of many honest-minded and otherwise reasonable 
 people, and starts the ever fatal reform-mania, which attempts to 
 do by legislation the work which education has failed to do; that 
 is, to elevate the character of the people in general and of their 
 representatives and leaders more especially. 
 
 Short-sighted journalism so misleads many voters that they 
 labor for the undoing of their own welfare, not only for the un- 
 doing of their own individual liberty and prosperity, but also to 
 the end of making this country dependent on a foreign credit- 
 system, and subject to international programmers. 
 
 The voters of this republic, inspired by moralizing talk and 
 by promise of better conditions, labor to fetter the money evils 
 legislatively, with the result of "forging fetters their own feet 
 to fit", as did the populace in the colonies of ancient Greece. 
 
 The reform-crazed American voter now calls for more spe- 
 cial legislation, which does not increase his chances of peace and 
 plenty, but which deprives him of his civic rights and liberties, 
 and places more and more power into the hands of politicians 
 and public servants, and more burdens on his own life. He vir- 
 tually calls for an extension of the recently established bureau- 
 cratic system; he calls for administrative interference in local af- 
 
 XI 
 
fairs by agents of the central government, which cannot keep it- 
 self thoroughly informed about local requirements in this vast 
 country; he calls for more extravagances in national administra- 
 tion; he calls for tariff-revision which would result in transfer-' 
 ring our national cash-resources to foreign money-powers, and 
 which would put America's laboring classes into direct competi- 
 tion with cheap foreign labor; he calls for reciprocity with for- 
 eign countries with which he cannot compete: — coun- 
 tries which do not bear the heavy burden of our waste- 
 ful government and which are not subject to our ex- 
 traordinary living expenses. He calls for all sorts of 
 administrative measures which would necessitate more 
 national bond-issues and higher taxation, and which would place 
 greater burdens on the wealth-producing classes. He calls for 
 more battleships, not needed for coast defense nor for the pro- 
 tection of commerce in the absence of a merchant navy. He 
 glories in the acquisition of foreign domains, populated by races 
 which cannot assimilate with ours and which are not susceptible 
 to self-government. He takes delight in seeing the aggressive 
 policy of our central government and its interference in foreign 
 affairs, its proposed coalitions with monarchical governments, 
 better organized than our own to control international policy, but 
 playing a dangerous international ga'me. He submits to the 
 usurpation of power by the public servants who undertake to 
 manage his national affairs, and who have usually not enough 
 knovvledge and experience to manage properly the affairs of a 
 single county, but who are filled with ambition, not only to rule 
 with an iron hand the many millions of people in these United 
 States, but to play an arrogant and dominant part among the 
 great civilizations of the earth. He even endorses the expensive 
 foreign policy of his national representatives, and he accepts 
 without question the inspirations of international programmers, 
 handed to him as news in the daily press. 
 
 The average American voter, by news items inspired, sees 
 all sorts of possibilities of either coming greatness or dawning 
 dangers, which are impossibilities in fact, but he overlooks the 
 most important of all national dangers, the undoing of his 
 national independence of foreign money-systems, and he ignores 
 another quite important factor in the extension of our republican 
 institutions, viz., the fact that party-regime without a truly patri- 
 otic, characterful, centralizing middle-power can never be a last- 
 ing success in an extended and rapidly growing civilization, for 
 it works "to maintain itself and its own one-sided interest at the ex- 
 pense of the commonwealth. 
 
 XII 
 
Party-regime 
 such as ours, may serve early stages of national development 
 well, and it did so serve the early stages in the grow^th of this re- 
 public, but in great and extended stages of national develop- 
 ment party-regime v^ithout some national centralizing powder 
 must ever prove a failure. It proceeds by going into side-issues, 
 and it cannot avoid becoming so extravagantly one-sided in opin- 
 ions and in legislative and administrative measures as to divide 
 the house against itself if opinions are the only lights which de- 
 termine civic rights. 
 
 Aggressive opinions and extravagant party-measures sow 
 the seeds of bitterness and hatefulness among social constituents.- 
 The hollow talk of party-workers lionizes its own supporters and 
 exerts itself to assassinate the reputations of its opponents. It 
 exalts the opinion-made and usually pernicious systems which 
 corrupt the men who operate under them, and it condemns the 
 corrupted victims of system only if they are working for the op- 
 position party. 
 
 Hollow talk, acting in the best interests of party ,but careless 
 of the true interests of commonwealth, makes continuous mud- 
 throwing part of its endeavor. It throws mud, not only at po- 
 litical candidates, but at the occupants of public office in such 
 a way as to deter many able and characterful men of affairs from 
 accepting public service; it lionizes the flunkies of party-regime 
 and of foreign program; it builds up advertised reputations for 
 men active in party interests, and it helps to place incompetent 
 members of the party machinery in control of those public and 
 national affairs to which only truly patriotic men of business and 
 financial ability can properly attend. 
 
 The people of these United States have not yet come to rea- 
 lize the great difference between their own national system of fi- 
 nance and the international credit-system. If this difference was 
 understood in its bearings upon national welfare and peaceful se- 
 curity it is safe to say that public opinion would change its atti- 
 tude regarding many problems now under congressional con- 
 sideration, such as those of trusts, tariff, taxation, expenditures 
 for political purposes, Panama Canal-building and foreign policy 
 in general. 
 
 Hollow talk, active in the opinion-making business, so stuffs 
 the public mind with ready-made ideas that but few minds can 
 retain their natural ability to think for themselves in natural 
 ways. 
 
 The masses cannot be expected to give much thought to na- 
 tional household affairs and to international relationships; most 
 individuals usually have all they can do to think about their own 
 affairs. Hence a great part of the public is placed under the 
 
 XIII 
 
necessity of accepting the advice and direction of professional 
 talkers and political leaders, who usually offer opinions in the 
 charming garb of rhetoric as substitutes for full and fair state- 
 ments of gisty judgments of Fact. 
 
 The mass of the voters is easily misled by the word- 
 knowledge of party leaders to accept this or that biased party- 
 regime or unsavory policy. Lacking the qualities of foresight 
 which make for great and lasting success, the misled masses, who 
 have a numerical preponderance of votes, can easily be turned to 
 party account, as the misleaders of public opinion may desire. 
 
 Our political party-pullers now advocate all sorts of meas- 
 ures and policy which the early leaders of this republic consid- 
 ered detrimental to public welfare. 
 
 Hollow talk is the fighting machinery of party agitators and 
 seekers after personal advancement, to whom patriotism is a 
 secondary consideration. The gallery-playing politician, who 
 poses as a diplomat and seeks world-wide fame and approval, 
 cannot well be a patriot. The Kleons who seek to pre- 
 judice public opinion in one way or another, seem to be very 
 numerous in America's political life, but no Demosthenes, able 
 to defend and advance the interests of commonwealth, makes 
 himself heard. 
 
 Democratic institutions need more fully ienlig^tened and 
 characterful voters than do monarchial governments. When peo- 
 ple undertake to elect their highest representatives by vote and 
 to direct the policy of the nation by platform, they should have 
 a thorough understanding of the inner and outer requirements 
 to national welfare, and they should themselves be able to de- 
 termine upon doing the right thing at the right time; in fact, 
 under the often critical conditions of international relationship, 
 the people who undertake to rule themselves should have diplo- 
 matic genius. The voters under monarchial governments do not 
 need such genius. Monarchies have a permanently established, 
 aristocratic centre, which devotes its life to diplomatic thinking 
 for national welfare, presumably. This aristocratic centre en- 
 ters as an adjudicative head between the hasty progressives on 
 the one hand and the tardy conservatives on the other hand. When 
 this adjudicative head is wanting, party strife is liable to fly from 
 one extreme to anoth'er, and to accomplish nothing in the way 
 of healthful development, unless the voters are sufficiently en- 
 lightened and able to determine upon and direct the internal and 
 external policy of the country. In small republics, where great 
 diplomatic ability is not needed, the people have often given 
 
 XIV 
 
proof of ability to manage at least their national household af- 
 fairs and internal policy, btit in a great and growing civilization 
 of a hundred millions, like our own, proportionately more en- 
 lightenment and characterful free-agency power are needed; not 
 only to direct the internal policy, but to cope with external con- 
 ditions and requirements. The United States, by reason of their 
 great industrial development, geographical position, etc., etc., 
 enter as a very important factor into all the international rela- 
 tionships of the world, and they are liable to be drawn into un- 
 desirable entanglements by foreign diplomats, ambitious to ob- 
 tain world-control, and by native politicians, who would sacri- 
 fice the best interests of the country in order to figure personally 
 in the international game. The bearings of these possibilities, 
 the voter, who undertakes to determine national policy, should 
 understand and should be able to deal with, as the international 
 program-work proceeds. 
 
 Republican self-government needs voters who will not allow 
 themselves to be misled by ready-made opinions placed before 
 them, who will not engage in a war of words for opinion's sake, but 
 who can of their own knowledge distinguish truth from error and 
 right from wrong, and who will devote their energies to the pre- 
 servation of national liberty. 
 
 Self-government can only succeed if controlled by fully en- 
 lightened and characterful free-agency powers, whose self-con- 
 sciousness and self-respect provide a living criterion of certitude, 
 by which the merits and demerits of opinions may be judged. 
 
 The opinionated mind thinks without a living criterion of 
 certitude, for it thinks without understanding of natural causa- 
 tion in which this criterion has its root. It hops from one ready- 
 made idea to another about its workshop of thought, without 
 ability of forming conclusions true to the movements of the 
 powers which control life and civilization. 
 
 Opinions fly from one extreme to the other, always creating 
 undue disturbance by praising or condemning this or that factor 
 in civilization. Opinions are always one-sided and usually 
 tending toward extravagances; on the one hand they condemn 
 labor unions; on the other hand they condemn combinations of 
 capital. Now they favor low tariff, now high tariff; now they 
 advocate this, now that policy, but they always lack the certainty 
 and stabilit}^ which promote national growth. 
 
 Antiquity has often recognized the need of a reliable criterion 
 of certitude in determinations of individual and national conduct. 
 Modern Catholicity has apparently attempted to revive the old- 
 time recognition of this need in launching the dogma of Papal 
 Infallibility ex cathedra; but its definition of ex cathedra and the 
 
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accompanying dogma of the Immaculate Conception, presumably 
 representative of an errorless mother of human knowing and 
 thinking powers, has so far fallen short of that which the world 
 could accept as standards of Light and Right that the Papal cri- 
 terion of certitude has not found very ^extended endorsement in 
 Christian civilization. If the Gist of creative causation is not fully 
 and fairly known, no thinking mind can claim full free-agency 
 powers nor the possession of a living criterion of certitude, and 
 hence neither the knowledge of right or wrong in human conduct 
 nor ability of judging the merit or demerit in conflicting opin- 
 ions. 
 
 Facts in the way of thinking are not necessarily facts in the 
 way of living. Life has requirements which the thinking faculties 
 but too often ignore and which opinions can never truthfully re- 
 present. He who wants to claim a better knowledge of Fact than 
 opinions can furnish, and the right to guide or control human con- 
 duct, must furnish the thinking world with convincing evidences 
 that be has a fully and fairly enlightened understanding of the 
 causes which create and sustain the order of life. As long as re- 
 ligious leaders cannot furnish the public mind with these evidences, 
 so long has the public mind a right to doubt the competency of 
 religious leadership, for in all likelihood does it adhere to its 
 old-time ways of dealing in one-sided opinions and hollow talk. 
 While religious leaders stand divided among themselves by 
 reason of diverse, conflicting and contradictory opinions as to 
 the creative and organizing power in the process of life, and 
 while they speak after the manner of other half-enlightened in- 
 tellectuals, who ignore one half of the human knowing power, 
 they should refrain from promising reform, salvation, peace and 
 prosperity, as should all opinion-mongers. All reform-measures, 
 advocated by opinionated minds, will prove causes of undue dis- 
 turbance in civilized life. 
 
 That which up to recent times has ruled our country, was 
 much of a natural growth and but little of artificial system, hence 
 there is much in this civilization as it should be, and therefore 
 the established order is a thing not to be disturbed by visionary 
 reformers. 
 
 We have recently entered upon a new era. A certain kind 
 of so-called higher intellectual development is being pushed into 
 American civilization. ' It is much of a pretentious but hollow 
 artifice, foreign to all knowledge of the causes of natural growth. 
 It is artificial intellectualit)^ with the influence of which 
 we have to deal when considering the now active causes and 
 
 XVI 
 
consequences productive of social conditions. It is the opinion- 
 pest, mythically known as the locust-pest, which has befallen this 
 civilization as a consequence to a superficial and alphabetical de- 
 velopment of intellectuality, disseminated and fostered in our high- 
 er institutions of learning. The learned thinkers presume to ans- 
 wer all questions with regard to unsatisfactory conditions in 
 social life by their opinions, and it is for the voters of this country 
 to determine how much of merit and demerit there is in these 
 opinions before they accept them as gospel truth and causes of 
 coming salvation. 
 
 Will the prejudicial talk against Trust-systems not eventu- 
 ally destroy the possibility of maintaining the financial indepen- 
 dence of these United States? 
 
 Will the anti-tariff agitation not eventually open the doors 
 of our commonwealth so wide to products of foreign labor that 
 the payments in balance of trade will diminish our cash-resources 
 and plunge us further and further into bonded indebtedness, until 
 we become permanent tribute-payers to foreign financial skill, 
 our natural advantages notwithstanding? 
 
 Will the agitation against the so-called predatory wealth of 
 our own country not eventually force our great financiers to turn 
 their interests over to foreign systems of finance, as some of our 
 great railroad men are said to have been forced to do during the 
 last financial calamity? 
 
 Will this transfer of our great wealth-producing powers into 
 absentee ownership not virtually deprive this country of home 
 rule? 
 
 Is the persistent agitation against some of the great indus- 
 trial combinations of American capital not perhaps inspired by 
 foreign programmers with a view of destroying America's finan- 
 cial independence? Are the good trusts not perhaps those 
 which are now directly or indirectly controlled by the interna- 
 tional credit-system, and are the bad trusts not perhaps those 
 whose managers will not allow themselves to be so controlled? 
 
 Will coalition with a country, controlled by a better organized 
 and more diplomatic government than our own, not eventually 
 make this heretofore free country a mere province of foreign 
 guiding powers? 
 
 Is England not playing a somewhat high-handed and dan- 
 gerous international game with doubtful success? Is foreign di- 
 plomacy not so intricate and uncertain a game that American 
 politicians will not be able to play it successfully? Foreign diplo- 
 mats have undertaken to educate the American voter in many 
 ways which are not in line with the possibilities of maintaining 
 a democratic government. They have placed very many ready- 
 
 XVII 
 
made ideas, through learned and loudly advertised authorities, 
 before the American public. Many of these ideas have an omin- 
 ous bearing upon the national life of these United States, and of 
 the merits and demerits of these bearing's the American voter 
 should be able to judge. If he lacks this ability he may endorse 
 a national policy fatal to democratic institutions. 
 
 Is not perhaps England's influence in American affairs and 
 her ambitious world-policy a danger to the democratic institu- 
 tions of these United States? Do the American people not now 
 need a patriotic awakening to the dangers which arise in inter- 
 national combinations to a country which enjoys the favorable 
 position of an isolated continent? 
 
 These and many more important questions now place them- 
 selves before the minds of the American voter, and all should be 
 answered, not merely by opinion, but by gisty judgments based 
 on a thorough understanding of the causes which are dominantly 
 and subserviently active in twentieth century civilization. Where 
 is the individual thinker who can claim a comprehensive knowledge 
 of these causes and a thorough understanding of their world-wide 
 and invisible activit}^? These causes are, of course, knowable, and 
 they are probably known in fragmentary ways, here and there, to 
 some of the millions of thoughtful minds, but who can claim the 
 comprehensive knowledge necessary to foresee the consequences 
 of the present mental activity in distant lands among distant 
 races? Our learned thinkers make the public mind acquainted 
 only with existing conditions, here and there, but they ignore the 
 causes which are invisibly working to change these conditions. 
 Would it not be well for the leading and patriotic minds of Amer- 
 ica to org'anize themselves for the study of causes which make 
 civilized life a success or failure, and for the purpose of enlight- 
 ening the masses as to the needs of free-agency knowing and do- 
 ing powers? 
 
 Would it not be well for the leading minds of America to 
 make themselves acquainted with the fact that there are inter- 
 national programmers at work in twentieth century civilization, 
 and with the detailed features of these programs, if not also with 
 the personality of the programmers? How many American 
 voters have any idea whatever of the existence of international 
 programs? How many could with any degree of certainty point 
 to the programming heads whose names and ambitions never 
 appear in public print, who operate unseen, even as do the pow- 
 ers of life and the forces of death? Is it not dangerous to live in 
 the dark as to the causes which control human life and national 
 welfare? 
 
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Apart from the dangers arising from the want of knowledge 
 of international affairs, there may be dangers brewing within 
 home affairs which deserve public attention. 
 
 As diverse and contradictory opinions of Right and Wrong, 
 of Good and Evil multiply in this land, so also multiply legislative 
 measures. No opinionated mind ever knows the gist of either 
 Right orWrong as thoroughly as it should be known in order to 
 asstime legal character. Under the influence of opinions the 
 character of the law deteriorates as legislative measures multiply. 
 No learnedly enlightened mind can keep track of the continuous 
 multiplication of laws in these United States, so as to know with 
 any degree of certainty what is considered legally right or wrong, 
 here or there, now or then. Are not all courts controlled by 
 opinions? Are these opinions always reasonable? Are they not 
 sometimes unreasonable? Do courts never reverse their own 
 judgments? Are they not controlled by thinkers who cannot 
 lay claim to any living criterion of certitude, and who speak of 
 right and reason as opinionated minds speak of good and evil? 
 
 The opinion-made law is a dangerous tool of the intellect 
 when it comes under diplomatic control. It leads to unjust con- 
 victions, the manufacture of criminals, Dreyfus cases, judicial 
 and legislative spoliation, and worse. 
 
 The United States are rapidly becoming a law-ridden coun- 
 try. Law-making is becoming a national mania; innumerable 
 opinions demand legal embodiment. One-sided legal talent is 
 predominant in party regime, and it is altogether too active in 
 special legislation. Partizan leadership continues to play both 
 ends against the middle. Partizan interests are being pushed 
 ahead of the true interests of country. The one-sided opinions 
 supporting party interests threaten to put an end to the govern- 
 ment by the people and for the people. The undue assertion and 
 power of pronounced opinions in party-government has often 
 enough legislated to death the flourishing civilizations of an- 
 tiquity. 
 
 The internal peace of every great civilization is ever endan- 
 gered by faulty intellectual development. 
 
 The so-called higher education does not produce Fact-knowers 
 and Truth-tellers, but it produces a knowledge of 'ologies and of 
 relatively true ideas, and a great diversity of opinions regarding 
 Right and Wrong. College education converts the fullness of 
 natural intelligence into the hollowness of artificial intellectuality; 
 it does not elucidate the all-important features of natural causation, 
 but it produces 
 
 pronounced thinkers, 
 who imagine that their opinions should be accepted by all the 
 
 XIX 
 
world as standards of Light and Right. When the young man 
 has received a College education he imagines that he has learned 
 how to think and speak properly, for all purposes of life. His 
 thinking powers have been trained to meander about categorical 
 pigeon-holes, and away from all connection with the conscious- 
 ness which accompanies natural causation. He has learned to 
 syllogize, but he has not learned to reason from cause to conse- 
 quence. He may have learned all about the rules which govern 
 academic rhetoric, but he has not arrived at a clear understanding 
 of the fact that the procedures of language must align themselves 
 to the principles of procedure in natural causation, in order to 
 fully and fairly elucidate Fact and to tell the truth about nature's 
 activity. Gollege-bred, pronounced thinkers who are more or less 
 ignorant of Fact — of the causes which produce social conditions — 
 are the curse of every growing civilization. Under the influence 
 of so-called higher education, they multiply like maggots in the 
 cheese and cause deterioration of the social substance; the less 
 they know of the changeful requirements of a growing civilization 
 the more anxious they are to convert their irrational opinions into 
 the laws of the land. 
 
 All the current opinions regarding the bearings on social 
 welfare of the great factors in national life, such as tariff, taxa- 
 tion, trusts, finance, morality, rehgion, science, etc., are more 
 or less irrational; all are conceived without a thorough knowledge 
 of the active causes productive of existing conditions. Conditions 
 are known, but the causes which produced the known conditions 
 are almost unknown. 
 
 The talk of 
 
 tariff-reform 
 is, like all other reform-talk, a product of irrational opinions which 
 pave the way from bad to worse with "pointed prejudices," 
 leading to fatal privileges, instead of doing away with these privi- 
 leges, as they pretend to do. The tariff question cannot be truly 
 answered from any one point of view; it stands closely connected 
 with all national household questions and also with the interna- 
 tional system of finance; it connects itself with the coin-payment 
 of balances in trade to foreign nations and with the great evil of 
 increasing bonded indebtedness, if balances of trade go against the 
 nation. The public opinion-makers do not usually present the 
 tariff-question in all its bearings to the public mind. There is 
 altogether too much foreign influence active in journalistic educa- 
 tion and national legislation regarding our tariff-regulations. 
 
 jcx 
 
The taxation system 
 is still medieval and utterly unfit to serve in the advancement of 
 our great commonwealth. To directly tax the toiler's tools, the 
 hand to mouth home-builder, the man with a hoe, is unjust when 
 we consider that money in many privileged channels of trade is 
 making undue profits and causing undue national expense. Our 
 system of taxation is even an outrage if we consider that it is 
 enforced for the purpose of supporting a wasteful army of public 
 employees, who serve no better purpose than the support of party- 
 rqgime, its special legislation and extravagant mismanagement 
 of national affairs. If our national household affairs were well 
 regulated, we would not need an expensive partizan army of tax- 
 gatherers. Under the existing system, the puny minds which 
 attempt to regulate state and interstate affairs, go into pimy 
 details at enormous expense. 
 
 Public opinion, proceeding in ways antagonistic to the ex- 
 isting Trusts, may eventually do great harm to civilization. The 
 
 Trusts, . 
 of all modern innovations in civilized life, are the most 
 important. If properly regulated by sense and reason, instead 
 of being disturbed by antagonistic, ill-conceived legislation, the 
 Trust-system would probably result in far greater benefit to 
 American civilization than ever did the introduction of machin- 
 ery. If the Trusts were properly chartered institutions, so as to 
 make part of their earnings tributary to the national treasury, the 
 questions of finance, tariff, taxation, etc., could be answered satis- 
 factorily to every right-minded man. 
 
 We have still at present two kinds of trusts in these United 
 States; the one kind, which is dependent upon and controlled by the 
 international credit-system, and the other kind, which is still inde- 
 pendent of the international credit-system and controlled by our 
 own national financiers. The first kind is beyond the control of 
 the American people, its voters and its government; the other 
 kind is in danger of being crushed, or driven into the hands of for- 
 eign financiers, with whose regime our politicians and judiciary 
 dare not interfere. In the preservation, nationalization 
 and chartering under proper conditions of these independent trusts 
 may be found the best of available means of managing our national 
 household economy, so as to secure some financial independence 
 and the possibility of eventually paying off the national debt. The 
 merging of the trusts, which are still independent of the interna- 
 tional credit-system, could give this country an independent, 
 national system of finance; it could do away with the bulk of 
 administrative expenses; it could establish conditions of individual 
 
 XXI 
 
welfare for industrial constituents; it could tax the beneficiaries of 
 system and privilege, and thereby lessen the burden of the hand to 
 mouth toilers; it could do away with the increasing evils of multi- 
 plying special legislation and of maintaining an unduly expensive 
 bureaucratic system. If Trust financiers had a due voice in the 
 management of national affairs, the country could not be forced 
 to pay tribute to foreign financiers and to submit to foreign in- 
 terference in the management of its national affairs. 
 
 It is not here asserted that the Trusts should control the 
 national government, instead of the government controlling the 
 Trusts. The assertion here made is that this government, being 
 controlled by political parties, is not altogether a government of 
 the people or by the people. Political party-pullers have other 
 interests at heart than those of the nation. They may claim 
 to talk for the nation with the view of influencing its voters, but 
 they act for themselves, their party and the programmers. They 
 are placed under the necessity of running the affairs of govern- 
 ment in accordance with public opinion, which is not always 
 thoroughly enlightened as to the changeful needs within and 
 about national affairs in the rapid growth of modern civilization, 
 and which, for want of proper enlightenment, is very easily misled 
 by the hollow talk of far-sighted programmers. 
 
 The government and constitution of the United States 
 were formed to suit a very much smaller and simpler form of 
 national life than that into which the changeful times have pushed 
 us. The original status of American society did not require more 
 than ordinary knowing and doing powers on the part of either 
 the people or the government. Government by party fitted the 
 requirements of early stages of national development. Party- 
 government was originally a government of and for the people. 
 A hundred years of national growth, however, have brought 
 about great changes. Party-regime is no longer doihg good 
 work; it is proceeding without due patriotism; it is being unduly 
 influenced and misled by great and growing financial interests. 
 It needs to be brought into pace with the times, and this can 
 only be done by an extended, interstate organization of non-par- 
 tizan patriots, who will not seek office, nor personal emoluments 
 or vain-glory, but who will make 
 
 cameralistics 
 their special study and business. This country needs a permanent 
 and competent board of advice, which will make national economy, 
 in all its branches, and national relationships its special study, and 
 which will devote itself to the harmonizing of individual and local 
 interests — party-interests with national welfare — , and this board 
 should have its representatives in every county of every state in 
 
 XXII 
 
the Union, not only for the purpose of studying local requirements, 
 but also for the purpose of keeping" a watchful eye on the opinion- 
 making business and the local evils arising out of it. This country 
 needs true lights on all social and economic subjects, and a high- 
 character advisory board, which can influence public opinion 
 against abuse of party-regime or ill-advised designs of program- 
 mers. 
 
 The hap-hazard selection of party talent to perform import- 
 ant public functions and fill important offices does not serve this 
 commonwealth to best advantage. No great business house could 
 run its afifairs successfully by selecting and changing its employees 
 in the hap-hazard way in which this government changes its 
 functionaries. Competence is required to do great work success- 
 fully. National affairs are the greatest of all work. To manage 
 them properly the needed ability must be properly prepared in 
 educational ways and retained regardless of party-interests. 
 
 Modern education and business training develop special facul- 
 ties of entering minutely into special pursuits, but such develop- 
 ment creates much littleness of mind without any unifying power. 
 Small minds aim to enter into details; they harbor small ideas and 
 they push these ideas by legislation into puny absurdities, but they 
 cannot deal with the great industrial and financial afifairs of this 
 immense civilization; they cannot and they do not at present deal 
 fairly and reasonably with the Trust-system. 
 
 The present political system-workers have given ample evi- 
 dence of their incompetence; they are progressive and aggressive 
 law-and trouble-makers in puny ways; they are no doubt men of 
 good intentions, but are they not by hollow talk blinded to the 
 best interests of this country? Is the present progressive regime 
 not proving itself retrogressive in many very important respects? 
 Has this great industrial nation not rapidly lost the advantages 
 which balances of trade gave it? Is it not being plunged into 
 debt in times of peace? Are popular unrest and class-hatred not 
 growing vmder the present party-regime? Is this country not 
 losing the backbone of its prosperity; — the financial strength 
 which balance of trade formerly gave it? 
 
 Were it not for the efficient work which great financiers at 
 home and abroad have done, our prosperity might even now be 
 at a low ebb. 
 
 Surely the Trust-system should be regulated and its affairs 
 adjusted to national wants, but this regulation can only be ef- 
 fected by the advice and influence of a competent organization 
 which makes cameralistics its special study and business, and 
 which stands aloof and apart from all party-regime and inde- 
 pendent of party-favors to an even greater extent than does the 
 highest judiciary. 
 
 XXIII 
 
Surely Trusts should be chartered institutions under proper 
 provisions, productive of national revenues, derived .from the 
 future increase of Trust earnings over their present net income. 
 Great and growing civilizations need great and well regu- 
 lated industrial organizations and systems, such as are the Trusts, 
 but they also need cameralistic ability to bring great industrial in- 
 terests in harmony with the needs of the nation. 
 
 Home-rule is needed for industrial Trusts and not adverse 
 legislation, which forces our industrial barons to seek unconditional 
 alliance with the international system of finance and credit. 
 
 The organization of industrial Trusts is a healthful step 
 toward unification of diverse interests in national affairs. If Trust- 
 organizations should drop into characterless financial system-work 
 they would be harmful to civilization; if, however, they should 
 grow about the focus of national organization, they could become 
 a power making for the establishment of internal peace which no 
 other now existing power on earth could bring about as easily. In 
 the unification and regulation of Trusts lies the salvation of 
 American civilization and its democratic institutions. 
 
 The Trusts have come to stay. They will make their way into 
 all nations. What this country needs to harmonize the Trust- 
 system with national interests is an organization, which, proceed- 
 ing in peaceful ways, will make the Trust-system a public bene- 
 fit. 
 
 To consider Trusts as necessarily public enemies is like con- 
 sidering machinery an enemy of labor — it is foolishness. 
 
 Legislation against the growth of the still independent Trusts 
 may prove to be fatal error. 
 
 The nations which labor to legislate Trusts out of existence 
 may be moving toward industrial suicide; they probably will not 
 be able to compete with those nations which foster the Trust-sys- 
 tem. 
 
 Trust-systems are strength-giving factors in national finance. 
 They are even important to the maintenance of the inter::ational 
 system of finance, for if they do not give their support to it or if 
 they are not absorbed in it, the present international credit-system 
 may not be able to maintain itself long. 
 
 The Trust-system, if fulh^ developed in industrial nations, can 
 exter.d the life of the international credit-system by stepping be- 
 tween it and the people and by looking after local welfare. The 
 Trust-systems could even absorb the international clearing-house 
 system, improve its vvorkings infinitely, give healthful life to indi- 
 vidual nations and do away once and for all with the ever fatal 
 system of burdening great nations with overwhelmine indebted- 
 ness to individuals. 
 
 XXIV 
 
Our Trusts are national organizations; they are not yet em- 
 bodied in the international system of credit nor made altogether 
 tributary to it. They are an American invention, and the 
 American people have ever}^ right to profit by them. The unifica- 
 tion and regulation of industrial Trusts can do for our civilization, 
 and in fact for all the world, what the best regulated international 
 credit-system ^an never do. iney can establish internal condi- 
 tions of peace; they can look after the welfare of individual work- 
 ers in the body of commonwealth, they can be made a humane 
 organization which provides bread for the million; they u,re direct 
 wealth-producers, and hence they are an organization quite dif- 
 ferent from the world's financial system, which is and e-er must 
 be a bloodless and unfeeling institution. 
 
 The Trusts are the body organic of their many individual 
 workers, and the welfare of the individual workers, who produce 
 the wealth, is naturally part of the Trust concern. Hence the 
 American working classes have every reason to foster the Trust- 
 system. The Trusts can and do pay higher wages than the indi- 
 vidual employer, yet they cheapen the cost of production and of 
 marketing; they are effective commercial and financial machinery; 
 they c<^:\ bo maae to benefit every man in civilization. To be 
 jealous of the success of Trusts or to treat the Trust-system as 
 necessarily a growing evil is therefore error. 
 
 It is undoubtedly true that some Trusts have not a high 
 character and that they work often like characterless party 
 politicians, too much for self-interest and too little for the in- 
 terests of commonwealth; but yet it is equally true that Trusts, 
 which are still controlled by our own financiers, have much interest 
 in national welfare, and that many of them are managed in ways 
 which benefit commonwealth to greater extent than ever did indi- 
 vidual effort, in industrial ways, subject as it necessarily is to nar- 
 row limits and undue competition. The Trusts which lack char- 
 acter and which are still under home control, can be given it in 
 other ways than by hostile and destructive legislation. .They are 
 children of the nation and subject to control by charter; they can 
 be made to grow up in the right way. 
 
 Character must be evolved by education ; it must be a 
 growth. It can never be a product of counteractive legislation. 
 Only the evil work of characterless factors in civilization can call 
 for legislative repression. To legislate character into Trusts is 
 quite as impossible as to legislate it into people. To devise legis- 
 lative measures which force the management of Trust-affairs into 
 the control of shifty party politicians is not appointing the best of 
 guardians for these growing children of the nation. It is more or 
 
 XXV 
 
less unreasonable to demand submission on part of great and possi- 
 bly beneficial Trusts to the opinions of either domestic or foreign 
 programmers, for neither class of programmers has the true inter- 
 ests of this commonwealth at heart. The united industries cannot 
 be expected to accept ready-made opinions of programmers as 
 truths, nor can they be expected to yield gracefully to special legis- 
 lation against the industrial interests of the country. The Trusts 
 under home rule do not live for themselves alone; they must look 
 after the welfare of the country in which they thrive. There is a 
 community of interests between these independent Trusts and our 
 commonwealth. This community of interests can hardly be said 
 to exist to any appreciable degree among the hungry horde of 
 office-hunters who usuall)' need all their wits to support them- 
 selves. It is absurd to entrust partizan politicians, cowboys, 
 reform-fakirs and the unsuccessful in business life, who seek the 
 public crib, with work which only financiers can do. Government 
 by cheap opinions is not liable to make a great nation financially 
 strong- and prosperous. Cheap opinions are apt to result in very 
 expensive administration of public affairs; of this fact we have 
 ample evidence. Do the people of the United States not need an 
 awakening to the necessity for financial rule, for the protection of 
 the national treasury and of cash balances, against foreign and 
 possibly adverse interference? 
 
 THE WORLD'S CREDIT SYSTEM, 
 which supports the present era of industrial prosperity, has its 
 virtues and its failings. It is probably the best that can be devised 
 under the present status of public mentality and morality. Cheap 
 money and just and judicious extension of credit are what every 
 industrial civilization, and, in fact, all the world, needs at present, 
 and this the leaders of the system have resolved to furnish. Noth- 
 ing better can be expected of any financial system. Cash is lim- 
 ited, and therefore never can do the great work of unlimited, 
 expansive and properly apportioned credit. There is much to be 
 said in favor of the international credit-system, which is novv devel- 
 oping itself as a world-wide power. On the other hand, the ever 
 increasing extravagant bond-issues and the necessary refunding of 
 national bonds place a rather heavy burden upon the laboring 
 masses of the world. 
 
 Under the present system of education and the spreading of 
 notional morality and a-ctual immorality, the world's credit-sys- 
 tem, by multiplying bond-holders, produces an army of wasteful 
 idlers, instead of the character-aristocracy which every nation 
 needs. Under the existing systems in Christian civilization it is 
 doubtful if the bonded indebtedness of nations can ever be paid, 
 
 XXVI 
 
and the constant increase of national debts may eventually result 
 in wars to enforce or prevent repudiation. 
 
 In Gladstone's time the nations of the world owed the people 
 of England alone ten thousand million dollars. This immense 
 national debt, which exceeds the coin-resources of the world two 
 or three times, has since greatly increased and is still increasing. 
 
 The world's credit-system, we must admit, is well-regulated 
 and efficient in serving to develop the resources of the earth; it 
 is of an international and even world-wide extent, as it should 
 be, but it is what antiquity knew as a "swift-footed system;" it 
 gTows rapidly by lending the same money over and over. The 
 money lent today is returned through the clearing-house to the 
 lenders tomorrow and is lent over again. This lending of the 
 same money over again to nations should be done at a very low 
 rate of interest, that the credit-system may not become an undue 
 tribute-levying system upon nations. The clearing-house systems 
 should be chartered systems, with provision for rebate of part 
 of the ever increasing profits to national governments, as should 
 be all trust-systems. As the international credit-system now 
 stands, it grows rapidly into a system which levies tribute upon 
 all labor, and thvis growing, it cannot retain the good will of the 
 world. Proceeding as it does, it never can maintain itself long, 
 because it becomes a target for all diverse opinions, the world 
 over. The creditor-nation comes to be looked upon as the enemy 
 of the debtor-nation; it can only maintain itself on a war-foot- 
 ing while the predominant fighting power is with it. 
 
 The world's financial credit-system has probably as great in- 
 ternational merits as the industrial trusts can have national 
 merit. It may have even greater merits as far as humanity and 
 civilization are concerned; it is of far greater extent and power; 
 but it is a very much more difficult institution to manage properly 
 than is the industrial trust-system in any one nation. 
 
 International credit-systems have always had and probably 
 always will have two great enemies which have their root in human 
 consciousness and self-consciousness. According to sacred tra- 
 ditions, these invisible enemies have succeeded in bringing 
 about the de-nationalization of great races and the dispersion 
 and destruction of nations operating under this credit-system. 
 Counteraction against the so-called money-evils has resulted in 
 great national calamities and destructive wars. The international 
 credit-system has been recognized as speedily building up the 
 prosperity of colonial civilizations, but this prosperity seems never 
 to have been of long duration. The fathers of the international 
 credit-system built well, but the sons brought trouble into the 
 parental system and caused its collapse, so it is written. 
 
 xxvii 
 
Our intellectual ancestry has made record of one fatal error 
 which the opuiionated sons of the parental credit-system usually 
 commit, namely, that of causing their system in the rollings of 
 time to involve all other system-work in civilization in its meshes, 
 thus bringing all educational, moral, legal, political, industrial 
 and even religious system-work under control of the credit-mak- 
 ing power; thereby preventing people from living their own lives 
 as free agents and causing brother wars in colonial life which en- 
 gtilfed the mother-country and destroyed its credit-making power. 
 
 What happened so often in past civilization as to have found 
 formulated record in sacred traditions may happen again. The 
 present international credit-system may also meet with reverses, 
 as its predecessors have done. Its enemies are well organized 
 and even now watchful and active. They will not assail its proper 
 work in providing bread for the millions and establishing interna- 
 tional peace; but being watchful, they anticipate the return of tra- 
 ditional transgressions. 
 
 The world-wide credit-system, centred in the English clearing- 
 house, may some day be mismanaged; it may abuse its power; 
 while advocating peace it may establish conditions of war; it itself 
 may carry war into foreign lands; it may fall a prey to other sys- 
 tems. In view of these possibilities, it behooves this American 
 nation to secure its welfare at home; and not make this common- 
 wealth altogether dependent upon foreign systems of finance. Of 
 course the American people, as an English-speaking race, have 
 every reason to support the English international credit-system, for 
 it is this system which has supported and which still supports the 
 advance of modern civilization. Yet, as it behooves each indi- 
 vidual to look after the welfare of his family before employing his 
 energies in national affairs, so it behooves each nation to look 
 first after the welfare of its home affairs before expending its 
 surplus energies for international benefit. 
 
 Self-preservation in civilized life makes its just demands for 
 peace and prosperity at home. 
 
 Our remote ancestry has elucidated the many causes why 
 great and growing civilizations meet with untimely reverses. It 
 has elucidated these causes by indelible pictures placed in the in- 
 tellectual sky, that they may never pass out of the memory of 
 man. Among these causes are the reasons why no international 
 credit-system can long maintain itself. Among these reasons ap- 
 pears the ever recurring attempt of financiers to control the opin- 
 ion-making business, the policy of education and that of legisla- 
 tion, with a view of making money the ruling power in civiliza- 
 tion. It is this attempt into which the present international credit- 
 system is now embarking, and it is because of this attempt that 
 
 XXVIII 
 
the active enemies of the world-wide credit-systems are watchful 
 in the darkness of night. They know that the continuance of 
 peace and prosperity depends upon the ability and character of 
 financial leadership, and that undue ambition usually destroys 
 both this ability and character. They know that the public mind 
 can never be educated to worship the God Mammon; the men 
 in the hovel will not worship the man in the palace. All subtle 
 arguments intended to sustain the ruling power of money result 
 in intellectual reactions, and eventually bring the wealth-producing 
 people of the world to give battle to all ideas which debar them 
 from a fair share of success in social life. The hungry wage-slave 
 naturally hates the fattening master; the tax-payer hates the idle 
 and extravagantly luxurious bond-holder. No financial system 
 can so far extend itself as to multiply the leisured classes suffi- 
 ciently to enforce control of its regime, if it fails to sustain peace 
 and prosperity. The credit-making power becomes more and 
 more contracted as the poor become more and more numerous. 
 
 The world-wide credit-systems are necessarily bloodless, and 
 not in accord with human feelings and sympathies. They may 
 serve humanity well, in a way and for a time, but they usually 
 come to be looked upon, with or without just cause, as tribute- 
 levyers. Bloodless systems are the enemies of characterful organi- 
 zation, developing, as they do, absolute power to govern human 
 life. The international credit-system has developed power, first, to 
 engulf all other systems, and then to make itself master of the 
 world, to the end of destroying civilization and itself. The his- 
 tory of the international credit-system is the history of dispersed 
 nations. To plunge whole nations hopelessly in debt to individuals 
 has never proved itself to be a success. The international credit- 
 system has always rested on the shoulders of individuals, and it 
 always must so rest while nations do not provide organizations for 
 home finance. As it advances, so resting, it continues to provoke 
 antipathies, and it needs an unfeeling dictator — a Caesar — and an 
 expensive army and navy, to protect itself against enmity from 
 every quarter of the civilized globe. Ruin must come to all civiliza- 
 tions in which the living, organizing power is not predominantly 
 active as a civilizer and character-upbuilder. The rule of bloodless 
 system must end in ruin which no Messiah can avert, if character- 
 ful genius does not govern the system-work. These assertions, 
 here dogmatically made, are the subject of so-called sacred history. 
 
 The English credit-system may remain a lasting benefit to 
 civilization, if its managers avoid the errors of old. 
 
 The eternal choice of Free Agency is now before them. It 
 oflfers as ever a threefold opportunity, which antiquity has var- 
 iously formulated and symbolized, as for instance, by the Crest of 
 
 XXIX 
 
Podarkes, by the Seal of Solomon and by the Sign of the Christian 
 Cross. The world's financial leaders, have the choice of fighting 
 under the one, of laboring under the other or of organizing under 
 the third. What they will do remains to be seen. They will prob- 
 ably do what they consider best for themselves and for civiliza- 
 tion by the lights placed before them. 
 
 Lights of consciousness and conscience, true to Life's 
 requirements, are needed. Chief among the needed lights 
 are elucidations of the difference between systematizing talent 
 and organizing genius — between bloodless system-work and 
 humane, characterful organizing endeavors. 
 
 English civilization has arrived at a stage of development 
 where concentration of wealth is needed to supply the require- 
 ments of the teeming millions. Only great enterprises can now 
 supply and distribute the daily needs of the people. Individual 
 effort can no longer serve our growing- civilizations efficiently. 
 Incorporate enterprise alone can do it. Should traft'ic and com- 
 mercial incorporations not be made chartered institutions with 
 provisions of yielding part of their growing profits to public bene- 
 fit? Some genius' seems to be needed who can devise a way of 
 so amending the present corporation laws, as to make great finan- 
 cial, commercial, industrial and other extraordinarily profitable 
 combinations necessarily a benefit to civilization, and of making 
 this way acceptable to the financiers now in control of the En- 
 glish-speaking civilizations. The rapid expansion of great enter- 
 prises immensely increases their profits, and in as far as this ex- 
 pansion is due to national growth, in so far are nations entitled 
 to share in the increased profits. All great and semi-public en- 
 terprises should be made chartered institutions, yielding profit 
 beyond taxation to the nation which sustains them. If this were 
 accomplished by peaceable ways and means, and if the representa- 
 tives of chartered enterprises were given an influential voice in 
 government expenditure, many of the now threatening evils due to 
 concentration of domestic wealth might be obviated. The legaliz- 
 ed privileges of doing business on lines more advantageous than 
 those open to individual effort might be made a source of national 
 welfare, instead of grinding monopolies. 
 
 There are probably many ways and means which could 
 makethe concentration of domestic wealth in channels of trade a 
 public benefit, rather than a national danger. If domestic financiers 
 were given a fair chance to prove their patriotism they might find 
 ways and means to put an end to the reckless government expen- 
 diture, to the need of national bond issues and"To other political 
 evils; and they might find a way of eventually paying the national 
 debts without direct and oppressive taxation. 
 
 XXX 
 
Unfortunately, the American voter, who at present does not 
 distinguish between domestic and foreign money powers, is in- 
 cHned to look upon the growth and concentration of domestic 
 wealth alone as necessarily a national danger. The constant talk of 
 corruption has biased his judgment and reasoning powers. Much 
 talk about a little dishonesty here and there in local systems with- 
 draws the attention of the public mind from the great danger of 
 the larger, the foreign and perhaps more potent of evil-working 
 systems. If concentrated wealth is an enemy of civilization, then 
 is not the greater concentration of the money-power in the En- 
 glish system, and its influence upon the national life of this repub- 
 lic, a graver danger than the comparatively small accumulation 
 of domestic wealth? Have many of our great financiers not 
 proven their public spirit and patriotism by expending their sur- 
 plus wealth for national benefit ? Does the English credit-sys- 
 tem not lack such spirit? Is not perhaps England's influence in 
 American affairs and the world-wide ambition of her financiers 
 the present danger of our democratic institutions ? Do the 
 American people not now give some thought to the dangers which 
 arise in international combinations and coalitions? Great and 
 beneficial, indeed, has English influence proven itself to be so 
 far in the expanse of Christian civilizations. Will it always re- 
 main so? 
 
 The leaders of English civilization have sense, par excellence. 
 Have they such reasoning powers as well? 
 
 Sense and Reason are very different factors in the compound 
 of human consciousness, and both factors are required to insure 
 fitness of survival. Sense may suffice to survive in lowly condi- 
 tions, but Reason is needed to guide and sustain the human doing- 
 powers in highly evolved stages of intellectual and national devel- 
 opment. 
 
 England now enjo3'S the highest stage of twentieth century 
 civilization. She plays the dominant part in the international 
 game for world-control. If Reason sustains her advance she may 
 long retain her international prestige and predominance as a civi- 
 lizing power. If there be false pretense in her diplomacy and error 
 in her policy of advance she may lose her dominant hold on the 
 affairs of the world, as other world-wide powers have lost their 
 hold in former times. 
 
 The Truth will come to prevail again. Upon this hope do the 
 foes of the English world-policy and of the international credit- 
 system base their claim to international leadership. The attempt 
 to look into coming events demands much food for thought. 
 The recorded experiences of past ages and their elucidation of 
 natural principles of procedure will furnish interesting lights to the 
 
 XXXI 
 
possibility of looking into the future and of removing the veil of 
 uncertain fate from the certain causes of destiny. 
 
 The possibilities of sustaining the international credit-system 
 are surrounded by uncertainties. If these United States, abound- 
 ing in natural resources, carefully foster their trust-systems, they 
 may avoid entanglement in any possible collapse of the interna- 
 tional system of credit. The trust-system, how^ever, can only 
 prove a safeguard while it remains a national institution, and in- 
 dependent of foreign financial control. 
 
 The public enmity against the growth of domestic wealth 
 is to be deplored, inasmuch as this growth can be made tributary 
 to national welfare more readily than the foreign money power, 
 and also inasmuch as it tends to destroy the possibility of main- 
 taining a somewhat independent national system of finance. 
 
 Every nation needs a 
 
 "Curia", 
 a permanent organization to look after individual and national 
 welfare. 
 
 No individual thinker at this present moment can truthfully 
 answer the many questions which present themselves in consider- 
 ing the management of America's national affairs. Who can com- 
 petently deal with the relationship of international credit to that 
 of national finance? Who can foresee the result of the late war 
 between domestic and international financiers? Who at this 
 moment can realize the far-reaching consequences resulting from 
 the sacrifice of national finance to the international credit-system? 
 Who knows when national prosperity should be sacrificed to the 
 interests of international welfare? Who even knows when and 
 why individual interests should be sacrificed to national welfare or 
 national interests to individual welfare? Both kinds of sacrifices 
 are needed. Antiquity has largely dealt with this reciprocity of 
 interests, as conditions arising out of the organizing causes opera- 
 tive in nature, language and civilization. Modern thought ignores 
 this reciprocity of interests, as it ignores the causes of all condi- 
 tions of organic existence. It does not look upon the organizing 
 power, active in the threefold process of human existence, (nature, 
 intellectuality and civilization,) as the mainstay of human welfare. 
 It does not connect its various fragmentary aspects and concep- 
 tions of Fact with the organizing causes of existence, but it pre- 
 sents these aspects and opinions in categorically assorted forms of 
 characterless opinions. 
 
 Since modern thought of all kinds ignores the organizing 
 causes, it furnishes the mind with no true hold on Fact, and, as a 
 consequence, our pronounced thinkers dififer widely in their opin- 
 ions regarding the relationship of state rights to national rights or 
 
 XXXII 
 
that of individual rights to civic rights, and they give little or no 
 thought to the relationship of national to international affairs; in 
 fact, the reciprocity of interests arising in organic relationship is 
 not understood by any modern thinker. No modern thinker knov^s 
 the difference between bloodless system and characterful organi- 
 zation, yet the difference is all-important and should be thoroughly 
 understood by people who attempt democratic administration. 
 
 Bloodless systems differ from characterful organization as 
 tne relativity of things, tattght by modern learning, differs from 
 organic relationship, or as a doll differs from a child. The differ- 
 ence exists in the conception of causes. The learned conceptions 
 of causes are all of a mechanical, non-vital kind, while the causes 
 operative in the process of nature have organizing tendencies, ca- 
 pacities and character. The workings of both the mechanical con- 
 ceptions of causes and the consciously living and active causes in 
 nature and human life, must be understood before the study of 
 national household economy can be harmonized with that of 
 social welfare, or before bloodless systems can be harmonized 
 wiih social organization. The human mind must be raised to an 
 intellectual character-height where it can unify the work of blood- 
 less system with that of social organization, before the civilizing 
 endeavor can result in establishing measures conducive to the 
 welfare alike of individual and nation. 
 
 An organization for the study of national household economy 
 — cameralistics — is the lesser need of great civilizations, the 
 greater need being that of a "Curia", an organization which can 
 harmonize the material needs of civilized life with its social 
 requirements — which can harmonize the means-developing, bread- 
 Vvnming powers of sense with the characterful doing powers which 
 make such reasonable use of means as to benefit every part of the 
 social organisim, as well as the organism at large. Every nation 
 needs an organization of men and women whose knowing and 
 doing powers are sufficient to master the problem of "isodatic" 
 distribution of civic rights and duties. 
 
 The study of national household economy and that of organic 
 social relationship cannot be mastered by either scientific or theo- 
 logical thought, for both in their way of thinking, reasoning and 
 determining ignore the organizing causes active in the process of 
 existence. He who is not fully enlightened as to the organizing 
 causes can only form opinions of life's requirements — of right and 
 wrong, of good and evil — and the opinions so formed are not ra- 
 tionally conceived; they are only products of uncertain guesswork. 
 The difference between opinions and gisty judgments consists in 
 
 XXXIII 
 
the fact that opinions are formed without knowledge of the organ- 
 izing causes, while gisty judgments are focalized in the living con- 
 sciousness of these causes. 
 
 Scientific thought 
 is exact, but its work is only relatively true, and relatively true 
 ideas do not fairly represent the living, organic character and its 
 requirements. 
 
 Modern theology 
 is ignorant of the organizing power in the process of life which 
 produces the living character; it does not know that the Bible- 
 work, as well as all sacred writings, presents the workings of the 
 organizing causes by living pictures of organic language, as the 
 Living Gist of all Fact; it substitutes God-ideas for living God- 
 consciousness, and it deals with the requirements of life in opin- 
 ionated and visionary ways. It talks about possibilities of some 
 other world than ours, but it ignores or misi"epresents or treats in 
 visionary ways that vvhich is right and reasonable in this world. 
 For these reasons, neither the study of cameralistics nor that of 
 any higher organic requirement of civilized life can be effectually 
 handled by either theological colleges or universities in the manner 
 in which these proceed at present. The evolution of the civilizing 
 power in the human mind requires a special institution devoted to 
 the study of organic causes, and special talent in mature minds to 
 pursue that study effectively and practically. 
 
 China has long recognized this need; its recognition grew out 
 of its sacred traditions. Historic China has vainly labored to 
 re-establish the cause of its pre-historic greatness, the original 
 Great Learning, which elucidated the organizing causes in the 
 process of nature, of spoken intellectuality and of civilization. It 
 has established the Han-lin College, with the view of evolving civi- 
 lizing power and administrative ability of an organic type, but that 
 College has failed to do efifective work, because the sacred writings 
 of China, as well as the facts which these writings represent, are 
 as inaccessible to the modern Chinese mind as the gist of biblical 
 writings is to our learned thinkers. 
 
 The welfare of commonwealth is inseparably connected with 
 the welfare of the individual. The relation of family to state is 
 that of leaf to tree ; it is an organic relationship ; the life of the one 
 supports the life of the other. This relationship, being of a living 
 and organic character, cannot be essayed from the viewpoint of 
 either empiric or dogmatic learning; it must be studied in the light 
 of the causes of organic development and evolution which pri- 
 marily arise in living self-consciousness, which have been pre- 
 
 xxxiv 
 
alphabetically evolved by the use of organic language, and which 
 are elucidated in all so-called sacred or testamentary writings. All 
 these writings are framed in a truly organic type of language, 
 which is unintelligible to the alphabetically developed mind, but 
 which is indispensable to fact-knowing and truth-telling. 
 
 The financial systems, the trust-system, in fact, all systems, 
 are limbs on the trunk of the "Coiling and re-coiling peach tree" — 
 the tree of national life. They support the leaves, blossoms and 
 fruits, and they in turn are supported by the root and trunk of the 
 tree, in accordance with the organizing principles of nature. If 
 human society were educated and regulated in accordance with 
 these principles, then the financial s3^stem-work would be perfected 
 accordingly, and some of its profits would be made to flow contin- 
 uously through national treasuries, not merely by force of taxa- 
 tion, but rather by reason of community of interests. 
 
 While modern theology fails to understand the use of truly or- 
 ganic language, and thus failing, fails to fairly interpret testamen- 
 tary writings, as well as to elucidate the organizing causes active in 
 the process of life, of spoken thought and civilization, while 
 science deals only with phaenomena and conditions, regardless 
 of the causes which produce them, it will be necessary to pursue 
 the study of individual and social welfare in other than the ways 
 of modern learning. No branch of modern learning makes 
 right-thinking and right-speaking its study. All deal in hidebound, 
 categorical and terminological systems of rhetoric. All ignore the 
 logic of life and the ways and means by which it can be elucidated in 
 thought and pursued in fact. Therefore, a new school of thought, 
 which goes beyond alphabetical possibilities and the present under- 
 standing of actualities, and which makes fact-knowing, truth- 
 telling and right-doing the object of its endeavors, is needed in 
 modern civilization. The organizing causes must be made known, 
 in order that Right and Reason may rule in organic society, and 
 not bloodless systems. 
 
 In order to pursue the study of organization and home gov- 
 ernment, the young people of high character and ability in every 
 nation should organize themselves permanently to proceed in 
 ways quite different from those employed in university or college. 
 The earth is peopled by many different races, having differ- 
 ent tendencies and capacities, which must be developed in national 
 ways to suit time and space. No one nation can ever successfully 
 dominate all the earth, while racial differences exist. The nations 
 of the world are to civilization that which the family is to the state 
 in which it lives, i. e., an integral and necessary part. The unifica- 
 tion of the human race in this age cannot go so far as to wipe away 
 the racial differences and to bring the various stages of their devel- 
 
 XXXV 
 
opment under the regime of the same system, or even under the 
 rule of the same organizing endeavor. All educational methods, 
 the world over, may proceed toward the same end to evolve the 
 organizing powers in various nations and races, but they must 
 employ various ways and means to suit the various stages of pres- 
 ent character-development. Education which does not success- 
 fully evolve the organizing powers of the human race will not be 
 a successful civilizing power. If peace is to come to earth, the 
 organizing power must prevail first within nations before it can 
 extend itself internationally. Any international agreement for 
 peace, which is not of an organizing character, is doomed to fail, 
 as is also any plan of the international financiers to withhold the 
 sinews of war in order to enforce peace. When conditions of war 
 prevail, war must ensue. 
 
 Missionary work, 
 as it is done at present, is not an educational method which can 
 evolve the organizing powers among the races of the earth or the 
 necessary free-agency character anywhere, for it is done without 
 knowledge of the organizing causes. To speak of a God-idea 
 is far from elucidating the organizing causes which create and 
 maintain the order of life in individual and nation. 
 
 Organization for educational purposes is a necessity, for no indi- 
 vidual mind can ever prestmie to deal satisfactorily and properly 
 with the ever changeful requirements of a great and growing civi- 
 lization. 
 
 The process of intellectual and social evolution is a long, in 
 fact, an endless procedure. Individual life is short and not usually 
 so well qualified as to follow the eternal process of evolution from 
 the beginning to the end of its actualities or possibilities. Only " 
 the evolution of organic language makes possible the evolution of 
 an organizing. Free-agency Genius, who can know and do the Right 
 Thing at the Right Time to promote social evolution at its various 
 stages. This required evolution of 
 
 Organic language 
 is not a thing which any one individual can accomplish within 
 himself; it is a thing which the race has to accomplish, and which 
 only can be accomplished by any race if the educational endeavor 
 is persistently rational, if it persistently places the organizing 
 causes before the public mind as the one Gist of Fact, from which 
 all aspects of organic existence must be viewed, understood and .- 
 considered. The thoughts which have fitness of survival, and, 
 which impart their own fitness to the civilization which they con- 
 trol, have obtained this fitness by use of organic language through 
 long ages of intellectual development. This use of language began 
 
 XXXVI 
 
its development as a response to the natural promptings of the 
 organic powers of life in the human mind; it reached and passed 
 the zenith of its evolution, and thereafter descended into religious 
 endeavor. 
 
 The earliest of religious endeavors in antiquity very appar- 
 ently aimed to impart the organic powers of living consciousness 
 in the human mind to the thinking powers and faculties, by means 
 of organic use of language. All religious endeavors were appar- 
 ently based upon an understanding of the organizing causes in the 
 process of existence. They proceeded by organic means toward 
 the regeneration of intellectuality and civilizing power. All relig- 
 ious faiths apparently used organic language to embody thought, 
 and clearly distinguished the use of organic language, as a charac- 
 ter-evolver, from the use of everyday language, as a sense-developer, 
 and this distinction all educational organizations should ever bear 
 
 ' &■- 
 
 in mind. Academic rhetoric of our age differs from organic lan- 
 guage as a stuffed specimen in a museum differs from a living 
 animal; it may serve as a means to deal with the outer appearances 
 of things, but it cannot represent the organizing causes of life; it 
 may be an efficient means to the end of right-living, but 
 it is not altogether competent to evolve the human knowing and 
 doing powers. It can only develop a part of these powers, and this 
 part only in fragmentary ways. It can further sense-development ; 
 it cannot evolve the free-agency discerning, reasoning and de- 
 termining powers. It can move on the level of sense, but it cannot 
 climb up and down the Jacob's Ladder of evolution. Our acade- 
 mic rhetoric is only a systematized version of everyday language ; 
 it needs the support of a now entirely unknown type of rhetoric — - 
 the organic type — in order to make modern educational and social 
 endeavor a lasting success. Because the everyday use of language 
 cannot supply all the requirements to intellectual and social evo- 
 lution, religious endeavor and religious training of mind, which 
 hold to the old-time educational way of evolving consciousness, are 
 necessities to the healthful growth of civilization. Human society 
 cannot exist without religious faith in the care of a truly religious 
 organization. Truly religious faith centres thought in the con- 
 sciousness and self-consciousness of the living, organizing power, 
 and truly religious organizations develop this consciousness after 
 the manner of creative principles of procedure, by making thought 
 and language organizing powers in civilization. The possibilities 
 of harmonizing individual with social welfare rest on the possibil- 
 ity of developing and evolving the organizing power in the human 
 mind in a threefold way; first, as a natural knowing and doing 
 power in living consciousness ; secondly, as an intellectual knowing 
 power in the thinking consciousness, and lastly, as a unifying power 
 
 XXXVII 
 
of the thinking and Hving consciousness in the free-agency will and 
 its determinations to sustain the organic order of life. This is the 
 original conception of Divine Trinity. 
 
 Antiquity always recognized the necessity of bringing the 
 public mind in the way of right-thinking, right-speaking and right- 
 determining. It formulated means to that end. It bequeathed 
 those means to posterity. When we will come to understand the 
 thoughts and intent of the bequest, we will be able to master the 
 study of Light and Right, and to evolve organizing powers in the 
 public mind which have a true free-agency character — a character 
 true to the 
 
 organizing causes 
 in the threefold process of existence, the process of living, of think- 
 ing and of civilizing. 
 
 Right-speaking has everything to do with the possibilities of 
 civilizing human nature successfully. The organic use of lan- 
 guage civilizes; hollow talk daemonizes the human mind. Organic 
 language is the original cause of social organization and civiliza- 
 tion; it is personified as such in all the great cults; it is the WORD 
 — the original cause of civilization — in the Old Testament; it is 
 the Logos in the New Testament. In principio erat verbum. 
 
 In later historic antiquity, organic language appears to have 
 been looked upon as the mediator between the thinking and the liv- 
 ing consciousness. The living consciousness seems to have been 
 considered as the parent of the thinking consciousness, and the 
 Thinking Ego, properly evolved, as the free-agent of the living 
 powers. Language, conceived as the mediator between the living 
 and the thinking consciousness, appears personified in historic 
 antiquity as Mithras or as Christ the Lo^os, the unifying power 
 which can harmonize the world of idealit)^ with the powers that 
 create and sustain the order of life in the process of existence. 
 
 All that the human mind explicitly knows of Fact or of fan- 
 cies — of the workings of nature or of the workings of its own 
 thought — is known by means and virtue of language. Language 
 converts the living consciousness or raw material of knowledge, in 
 part at least, into more or less explicit knowledge; it converts the 
 animal intelligence of primitive man into the intellectual powers of 
 the civilized mind. 
 
 Intellectual powers are verbally developed features and phases 
 of elementary consciousness of life. 
 
 Language has powers to embody the various factors, active in 
 the organic character of human consciousness — in the compound- 
 of the human knowing and determining powers. Chief among 
 these factors is the organizing genius in the human mind — the 
 tendency, capacity and desire in human nature to organize family 
 
 XXXVIII 
 
and society after the principles of the organizing powers active in 
 the process of nature, which are usually known as the powers of 
 creation, because they have called into existence all forms of life, 
 all life being organic in character. The power of language to 
 embod}^ this organizing genius, its tendencies and capacities, in 
 antiquity has been ver}' generally looked upon as the primary, 
 original or so-called first cause in the evolution of the human 
 intellect out of animal intelligence — of human life out of animal 
 life — of civilization out of primitive man's animal-like existence. 
 The organizing genius in the human mind, in language embodied 
 and making for intellectual evolution, has been conceived as an 
 extension of the organizing powers in the process of nature, and 
 it, together with and apart from the various faculties of know- 
 ing, determining and doing, has been personified in accordance 
 with the once recognized rules of organic language. The more 
 important of these rules were embraced by the prosopopeia- 
 system of organic language. This system served, not only to 
 personify the various factors active in human consciousness, but 
 it also served to deify these personifications. All God-ideas origi- 
 nated in the prosopopeia-system; it served to personify and deify, 
 not only the various factors in organic consciousness, but also 
 intellectual powers and faculties. This deification had its reason 
 in man's recognition of the fact that organization of familj- and 
 state, in accordance with living principles, improved the condi- 
 tions of human existence. The Gods, then, of the great cults in 
 antiquit}" were personifications of the organizing powers in nature 
 and human nature, and of various faculties of this power, in lan- 
 guage embodied and by language evolved. 
 
 The prosopopeia-system of organic language has been a deifi- 
 cation-system. It evolved the organic workings of the intellect 
 out of the organic workings of that living consciousness which 
 accompanies the powers of life in their course of development and 
 evolution. The prosopopeia-system not only evolved the original 
 God-consciousness out of the elementary knowing and doing 
 powers of the mind, but it produced the specific and personified 
 God-ideas, polytheistic or monotheistic. The monotheistic ideas 
 originally personified the organizing genius in nature, intellec- 
 tuality and civilization: the polytheistic ideas personified the 
 various assistant factors which surrounded the consciousness of 
 the organizing genius in the human mind. Thus, all God-ideas, 
 polytheistic or monotheistic, were embodiments in language of 
 various factors of consciousness, and so also were all devil-ideaes. 
 
 The thinking mind personified its own factors of conscious- 
 ness in accordance with the prosopopeia-system of organic lan- 
 guage, and therebv converted its undefined consciousness of the 
 
 XXXIX 
 
organizingf powers in nature into specific, verbally personified 
 God-ideas, and into ability to organize society in accordance wtih 
 living principles. 
 
 All the God-ideas which gave life to the great cults of 
 antiquity, were originally verbal personifications of the organ- 
 izing power and its special faculties in the process of nature, of 
 intellectuality and of civilization. Sun-, serpent-, or other 
 phaenomena-worship had nothing to do with the original God- 
 consciousness of man; it originated in the common error of super- 
 ficial thinkers, that of mistaking the verbal symbol for the fact 
 symbolized. 
 
 Thus, religious faith and God-ideas had- their origin in the 
 healthful workings of human consciovisness, of sense and of rea- 
 son. Religious delusions originated in the decline and abuse of 
 the prosopopeia-system, and in the introduction of non-organic 
 systems of language, such as are our alphabetical, categorical and 
 grammatical systems, and in the confusion of the organic and non- 
 organic systems. The organic types of language, which evolved 
 the human intellect out of primitive man's, animal intelligence, 
 were superseded by numerous non-organic and confusing systems 
 in the course of alphabetical over-development. The many non- 
 organic systems, of which academic rhetoric is a specimen, caused 
 the so-called "confusion of tongues," and the derangement of the 
 natural workings of human consciousness. 
 
 Modern theology still deals with the remnants of the proso- 
 popeia-system, but in a way entirely diflferent from that pursued 
 by antiquity. 
 
 Modern science has dropped the prosopopeia-system entirely, 
 and deals only with its rhetorical antipode, the categorical sys- 
 tem. It deals only with categorical states of consciousness, by the 
 terminological type of language developed, and in peripatetic 
 definitions encased. 
 
 These explanations may help to make it clear that in dealing 
 with facts or in speaking of truth, scientifically or theologically, 
 the thinking mind is not occupying itself directly with nature's 
 activity, as is the usual presumption, but is dealing directly only 
 with ideas, by language personjfied or in definitions encased. All 
 the workings of thought, productive of knowledge, are in types 
 of language embodied or encased, and language controls the 
 workings of thought in one way or another; it gives thought its 
 ability to represent or misrepresent nature's activity in one way 
 or another. 
 
 If the part which language plays in our mental economy is 
 not made cltar in the process of education, then this process- 
 causes confusion in the natural workings of consciousness, of 
 sense, reason and will. 
 
 XL 
 
The thinking mind, educationally enlightened, but left igno- 
 rant of the influence of the various types of language upon con- 
 sciousness, loses its ability to use its natural faculties in thor- 
 oughly rational and health-sustaining ways. >i: * ^- * 
 If the alphabetically enlightened mind does not under- 
 stand the devious and confusing" ways in which the var- 
 ious types and systems of language affect consciousness, 
 then it cannot use its natural faculties in accordance with 
 living principles and it cannot evolve competent civilizing 
 powers. Delusive enlightenment, caused by the confusing influ- 
 ence of language upon consciousness, makes the thinking mind 
 unreasonable, visionary, opinionated and intolerant, thereby dis-. 
 turbing the order of life and destroying the possibilities of main- 
 taining a peaceful, organic, social relationship among individuals 
 in family and national life. 
 
 The stud}' of the influence of language upon human conscious- 
 ness was in antiquity recognized as the necessary foundation 
 for intellectual development. * ^ * * * When 
 
 the widety varying influence of the various, more or less 
 organic types of language and the many non-organic sys- 
 tems of language is not thoroughly understood, then the 
 thinking mind cannot accomplish much in the waj' of Fact- 
 knowing, nor can it tell the truth fully and fairly about nature's 
 activity; it can only guess at Fact, jump at relatively true but 
 vitall}'' faulty conclusions, and formi more or less irrational opin- 
 ions of the facts which it should be able to represent by gisty 
 judgments. 
 
 The study of right-speaking makes possible thorough fact- 
 knowing, truth-telling and right-determining, and this lays the 
 proper foundation for the evolution of free-agency powers and 
 their rightful exercise. Scientific 'ologies and 'isms and theologi- 
 cal visions can never evolve free-agency powers. They can never 
 develop true lig'hts of consciousness, needed to sustain the rule of 
 right and reason. While these true lights are wanting, the estab- 
 lishment of permanent peace, internal and external, is not within 
 the power of human thought. Civilization is ruled by reason or 
 by force. AVhen reason is lacking- in the God-consciousness of 
 man, then Mammon must rise in civilization to rule by force. 
 
 While the scientific, theological and philosophical institutions- 
 of learning ignore the living connection between the organizing 
 powers in the process of existence and the organizing powers of 
 human language, it is idle to hope for full and fair enlighten- 
 ment of the civilized mind and for the rule of reason and peace in 
 social affairs, and it is certain that the intellectuality produced by 
 
 XLI 
 
so-called learning will daemonize the human mind in present civi- 
 lization as it has always done in former ages. Intellectuality 
 which ignores the organizing powers in the threefold process of 
 human existence deludes the natural judging faculties of man, 
 misleads his powers of reasoning and perverts the free-agency 
 will. It substitutes guesswork for natural knowledge of Fact, 
 opinions for gisty judgments, and the rule of arbitrary force for 
 that of living reason. It works up a conflict of opinion and 
 internecine strife ; it stuffs the mind with ready-made opinions and 
 fixed ideas ; it establishes prejudices and privileges and fatal sys- 
 tems of instruction, education, legislation and administration, for 
 fatal are all systems in civilization which are not ruled by a char- 
 acterful organizing power. 
 
 Not religious, not scientific nor philosophical guesswork can 
 ever solve any social problems. They can only substitute system- 
 work for the required organizing work. Systematically developed 
 minds are intellectually perverted minds. System is a thought- 
 made and usually stationary thing; life is a natural growth. The 
 systematically intellectualized mind should never claim the ability 
 of answering any question of life truthfully. Religious faith 
 is the instinctive hold which the thinking mind has on the organ- 
 izing powers which create and sustain human welfare, and this 
 hold was evolved in pre-historic ages by a proper use of the powers 
 of language. Religious faith is now the mainstay of civilization; 
 upon its full and fair development depends the success of civiliza- 
 tion. The organizing God-consciousness evolves free-agency 
 character, in accordance with the principles of procedure by which 
 the creative powers in nature evolve organic life in all its many 
 forms. The development of religious faith is therefore a neces- 
 sity in civilized life, but that development must be thorough-going 
 and rational ; it must not be visionary. It must not lead thought 
 away from the powers of life, nor separate its work from them. 
 It must make intellectuality an organic and not a systematic 
 superstructure of mind; so it is written. It must evolve the 
 powers of reason and not merely develop the faculties of sense or 
 of self-sufficient thought. At present religious thought has fallen 
 under the control of opinionated minds, which rather divide human 
 judgments in visionary and denominational ways than unify the 
 reasoning powers in the civilizing instinct and its organizing 
 endeavors. 
 
 Religious faith 
 is being misled by the hoUowness of theological opinions and irra- 
 tional doctrines, until it becomes a character-perverter rather than 
 a character-upbuilder. All the questions in civilized life are repre- 
 sented in the light of opinion by theologians, who ignore Fact- 
 
 XDII 
 
knowing, Right-thinking and Truth-telHng. Fact-knowing is not 
 a mere building of systems of thought upon beHef, as are the 
 diverse doctrines of the various Christian denominations at the 
 present stage of naturally retrogressive and alphabetically over- 
 intellectualized development of mind. The denominational 
 branches of the Christian church are products of the systematically 
 flattened and categorically excavated intellectuality which harbors 
 philosophic visions and abstract ideality. The originators of the 
 Christian cult had nothing whatever to do with platonic ideality, 
 nor with any philosophic notions or opinions; they were Fact- 
 knowers of that type which in the following volumes will be called 
 the Sibylline school. 
 
 Upon Christian faith and its original doctrines, modern civi- 
 lization may well build its hope for future welfare, but that hope 
 must be deferred until the various denominations succeed in their 
 present movement of organically unifying the diversity of their 
 opinions, and forming one great Trust of Truth-tellers. Theology 
 must go out of the opinion-making business into right-thinking 
 and right-speaking, and it must teach the public mind the logic 
 of life, the logic of the civilizing purpose, the logic of the free- 
 agency powers, the logic of the "I must, I can, I will," the logic of 
 adjudicative reasoning, formulated in sacred writings, before it can 
 bring about betterment of conditions in Christian civilization. 
 Syllogizing and categorizing are well enough for scientific pur- 
 poses, but they are grave errors in theological endeavor. The 
 original meaning of the testamentary writings is as unknown 
 today as was the heart of Africa a hundred years ago. The words 
 of testamentary writ are known, but the thoughts and intent of 
 these words remain terra incognita, because the character of the 
 prosopopeia-and symbol-S3'stems, embodied in sacred language, 
 seems to be a branch of former enlightenment entirely lost to 
 modern thought. It is not at all understood by modern philolo- 
 gists. 
 
 ■ As with the theological ideas of 
 
 Fact-knowing, 
 so with the scientific ideas; they are equally irrational and ill- 
 founded. It is absurd to build a system of thought upon observa- 
 tions and experiences derived from the channels of special sense, 
 if the, natural connection of the faculties of special sense with the 
 causes of their evolution, and with their origin in the elementary 
 powers of conscious life, be not first known and elucidated. 
 
 Fact-knowing must rest upon the understanding of nat- 
 ural causation; it must comprehend the workings of creative 
 principles of procedure, as well as the outer and accidental 
 interaction of created things: it must comprise a knowledge of the 
 
 XLIII 
 
origin of life and of the' causes of development and evolution, as 
 they are in themselves, and not as they are rendered by the 
 thoughts and words of any scientific or theological thinkers. 
 Fact-knowing has its natural foundation in living consciousness — 
 in the self-conscious genius of life — , and it is therefore unlike all 
 scientific or philosophic truth-telling, which has its origin in spe- 
 cial sensations or thinking and talking talent. 
 
 Fact-knowing is a threefold process; it has (1) its inner con- 
 sciousness — its intuitive or evangelic features — ; it has (2) its outer 
 phases — its observations and experiences, or apostolic way of look- 
 ing at and conceiving nature's activity — , and (3) it has its power of 
 unifying the inner features with the outer phases and thereby pro- 
 ducing a picture true to the order of life, its causes of development 
 and evolution. Both science and theology take one-sided views of 
 Fact. Theology misunderstands the evangelic workings of the 
 human knowing powers, while science has not yet come to under- 
 stand the apostolic workings of consciousness, that is, the depend- 
 ence of faculties of perception upon elementary understanding and 
 upon the workings of Native Reason. 
 
 Fact may be defined as nature's activity, arising in the imme- 
 diate consciousness of human life. 
 
 Life has a consciousness of its own, which underlies the 
 thinking consciousness. 
 
 The consciousness of life is the true raw material of know- 
 ledge, which the thinking consciousness must elaborate, by means 
 of language, into explicitly enlightened free-agency consciousness. 
 The thinking consciousness, at our present stage of intellec- 
 tual development, ignores the living consciousness, which stands 
 immediately connected with the process of life, with the chain of 
 natural causation, and with the organizing power in that chain, to 
 which all life in general, and humanity in particular, owes its 
 existence. By ignoring the organizing powers, thought ignores 
 the principles of procedure in the process of existence, which are 
 the natural guiding thread of the thinking and speaking faculties, 
 and without which no living criterion of certitude can ever be 
 evolved in the public mind. Thought, proceeding without a cri- 
 terion of certitude, can only form opinions with regard to the 
 requirements of civilized life; as does modern intellectuality. 
 
 The great diversity of current opinion with regard to what is 
 right or wrong, good or evil, true or false in social life, is evidence 
 of much error and great delusions. Science has its theories, 
 theology has other ideas, everybodj'' who has a pronounced opinion 
 
 XLIV 
 
differs in some way from ever3'body else, and yet every individual 
 thinker would like to control the life of his fellow-men by the light 
 of his opinions. The opinionated mind always wants to be a 
 legislative genius. 
 
 Opinions are poor raw material for legislative purposes. The 
 laws which are made out of opinions are not respectfully consid- 
 ered by thinkers who disagree with the opinions, and therefore 
 opinion-made laws not only fall into disrepute, but they develop 
 themselves into causes of social disintegration and internecine 
 strife. 
 
 All great historic nations have suffered much from the alpha- 
 betical over-development of the thinking powers and from the 
 undue influence which opinions always exert upon the legislative 
 machinery. Therefore a more thorough knowledge of Fact is 
 essential to the welfare of civilization. 
 
 In order to bring the public mind and its intellectual leaders 
 to a point where they can see Fact in its own true light and 
 determine upon doing the Right Thing at the Right Time in the 
 way of development and evolution, it may be well to resurrect the 
 now unknown Great Learning of pre-tartaric China and its "Logic 
 of the Mean", for this Learning made thorough Fact-knowing the 
 foundation of Right-thinking, Right-speaking, Right-doing; and 
 it may also be well to resurrect the now unknown original mean- 
 ings of the vestiges of ancient art, which represent the experiences 
 of past civilizations. With this point in view, the symbol-and 
 prosopopeia-systems of antiquity will be elucidated in the follow- 
 ing volumes by reproduction of vestiges of ancient art and inter- 
 pretations of the original meaning of mythological or so-called 
 sacred story. These remnants of ancient thought will eventually 
 be found to have a power which transcends that of modern 
 rhetoric and which can make that knowable which is now consid- 
 ered unknowable. 
 
 Right-thinking 
 must be understood to mean the adherence of thought to the living 
 consciousness of the. organic powers active in natural causation. 
 It must include, not only the judging of phaenomena in their con- 
 nection with the inner workings of nature, but also the aligning of 
 iudginents after the manner of nature in the way of cause and 
 effect, of organic development and evolution. Right-thinking 
 must make the logic of life the foundation of judging, reasoning 
 and determining. To lav this foundation, the verv causes of life — ■ 
 the organizing powers in the process of nature — must be fully 
 and fairly elucidated, from Alpha to Oinega, from universal con- 
 sciousness to the height of free-agency self-consciousness. 
 
 XLV 
 
Right-thinking has nothing to do with categorizing or syllo- 
 gizing; there are no categories in the process of nature. The cate- 
 gories are intellectual tools produced by thought for use in its own 
 workshop. Syllogizing is not reasoning; only sophists and opin- 
 ionated philosophers consider syllogizing a way of thinking which 
 can lead to truth-telling. 
 
 liight-thinking, which makes the logic of life its foundation, 
 must make the logic of adjudication its principle of procedure in 
 devel "ping the civilizing powers of the human mind, and in evolv- 
 ing the free-agency character. The logic of adjudication is intel- 
 lectually v\hat the logic of organization is practically, an organ- 
 izing procedure which uses available means to the end of right- 
 living. It is this use of means which the Sibylline school has 
 formulated, and to the use of which the Great Learning of pre- 
 historic China opens the door. 
 
 Two discussions on questions of the hour with men prominent 
 in political and social life may help to throw light on the moving 
 spirit of the "powers that be" in the world of finance, in political 
 life, in the workings of party machinery and in the status of intel- 
 lectual development. The first took place with the editor of an 
 insurgent paper, who had been loudly active in condemning the 
 political representatives of the railroad systems and the practices 
 of the higher-ups during and after the recent financial crisis. The 
 second was had with a public-spirited gentleman of unquestiona- 
 bly high character, connected with the banking business, and sus- 
 pected of being a scout of the international programmers. 
 
 DISCUSSION WITH THE EDITOR. 
 
 THE EDITOR — No, I cannot say that I understand the pur- 
 pose of the insurgent movement. I presume it's intended to turn 
 some rascals out and give others a chance. I don't think there is 
 much virtue behind it; I joined it because it's popular. If a news- 
 paper wants circulation, it must give the people what they want. 
 The people like to read about the rascality among the higher-ups. 
 To advertise some higher-ups as rascals makes politicians success- 
 ful and gives a newspaper circulation. 
 
 QUERY— Did it ever occur to you that the present insurgent 
 movement is possibly connected with the present contraction of 
 credit, that both movements belong to the same program, and that 
 this program seems directed especially against men who control 
 railroads and great industrial enterprises in this country? 
 
 THE EDITOR — Possibly so. The men who control the rail- 
 roads have played a high-handed game in politics and finance, and 
 they are not very popular in consequence. 
 
 XLVI 
 
QUERY — Is not perhaps the public enmity toward railroads 
 the result of systematic disparagement of railroad interests by 
 the Press? Has public feeling not been worked up against cer- 
 tain railroad men and domestic financiers, for the purpose of forc- 
 ing them to hand over the control of the railroads to other and 
 perhaps foreign financiers? 
 
 THE EDITOR — It does look as if change in control of the 
 railroad systems was aimed at. The withdrawal of credit from 
 certain men in control of great railroads, and the simultaneous 
 attack on the politicians who operate under railroad control indi- 
 cate that someone else, besides the people, is after the railroad 
 men. 
 
 QUERY — Isn't someone cleverly directing the Press agita- 
 tion against railroads and railroad financiers in connection with 
 the insurgent movement? 
 
 THE EDITOR — I don't think so. I know of no paper that is 
 being subsidized. I am in the movement only because it's popu- 
 lar and it pays to have public patronage. 
 
 QUERY — If it be true that the insurgent movement is 
 directed against certain domestic financiers who control railroads 
 and great enterprises, mainly for the purpose of taking this con- 
 trol from them and placing it in the hands of English financiers, 
 is that not sacrificing the best interests of the country? 
 
 THE EDITOR — Possibly, but that is not my concern. I 
 have tried long enough to run a paper in the best interests of the 
 people, and I have lost subscriptions and thereby the patronage of 
 merchants who advertise. I have had to quit working for public 
 benefit; I am now working with public sentiment. If it directs 
 itself against railroads, against predatory wealth, against graft, 
 it seems worthy of support and it pays to support it. Never 
 mind the result of the agitation. The shake-up may land us 
 deeper in the hole; it probably will, but we can probably take care 
 of that when the public finds it out. A newspaper must swim with 
 the stream; it must give the public what it wants. The public 
 wants something; it never knows exactly what. It loves sensa- 
 tions and excitement, and for these it pays. 
 
 QUERY — Is not someone directing popular sentiment, 
 through the channels of the Press and Literature, in ways to suit 
 great financial interests other than those which are especially 
 domestic? 
 
 THE EDITOR — I presume someone must do the long-headed 
 thinking in national life, and direct public attention to needful 
 changes, and I presume the great financiers make it their business 
 to look after their own interests, as well as that of the public, when 
 they make their influence felt in political program-work. 
 
 XL.V1I 
 
QUERY — If the political program-work is done to suit for- 
 eign financiers, are not perhaps national interests sacrificed? 
 
 THE EDITOR — Eventually, perhaps, but not at present. Our 
 interests .hinge on prosperity. At present we have really more 
 prosperity than the mass of the people are entitled to enjoy. 
 
 QUERY — Isn't it treason to democratic institutions to allow 
 foreign financiers to control the domestic policy of this country? 
 
 THE EDITOR — Not particularly. The greatest financial 
 powers can do better work in developing the resources of the 
 world and in regulating the commerce than can smaller financiers. 
 Regulated it must be; let the best man have the controlling 
 voice. The people can't regulate their own national affairs and 
 international connections. They are like a big jelly-fish with a 
 very little head. The body grows bigger, but the head doesn't. 
 Someone must do the thinking- for the democratic jelly-fish. 
 Whether foreign or domestic financier make the program, what 
 is the difference? We cannot surround ourselves successfully 
 with a financial wall. There is nothing treasonable in the pro- 
 gram as long as the authorities at Washington approve of it. 
 
 THE DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC QUESTIONS WITH THE SUSPECTED SCOUT. 
 
 QUERY^What is your idea regarding the present reform- 
 movement in politics and finance? 
 
 THE SCOUT — A good movement, badly needed in this coun- 
 ,try. Nowhere on earth is there so much high financing and 
 political grafting as in the United States. These abuses cannot 
 be tolerated. 
 
 QUERY — How can they be brought to an end? 
 
 THE SCOUT — By rigorous enforcement of the law; — by put- 
 ting speculative bankers and political grafters in jail. 
 
 QUERY — All of them, or only a few? 
 
 THE SCOUT — A few to begin with, and to make an example 
 of, so as to scare oft the balance. If that doesn't do it, keep the 
 mill of punishment going. 
 
 QUERY — A simple process, isn't it, that of scaring people 
 into goodness? What a pit}'- that it doesn't always do the desired 
 work! The flies refuse to be scared off the social jam-pot. 
 Nature goes where there is power and opportunity. Do not men 
 usually refuse to be scared into being good? The medieval 
 authorities employed most extraordinary ingenuity and means in 
 scaring heretics into piety, without securing allegiance to their 
 regime. The southern gentry believe in burning negroes at the 
 stake, in order to scare them from committing rape, yet they are 
 constantly being charged with it. Our theologians still preach 
 
 XL.VIII 
 
eternal hell-fire and eternal salvation, and yet we need more and 
 more penitentiaries. 
 
 THE SCOUT — Fear of punishment has a salutary effect upon 
 some people, at least. It is about the only way of checking the 
 abuse of power and opportunity. 
 
 QUERY — Could moral training not bring about a change in 
 public character, so that the wish and will to do wrong may not 
 prevail? 
 
 THE SCOUT — Visions! The public doesn't take kindly to 
 moral training; it is not open to any movement aiming at improve- 
 mfent ni its own ranks. It wants everybody and everything else 
 improved, but it considers itself all right, and it is so. It is good 
 raw material for the building up of civilization. Leadership 
 moulds public behaviour; it makes builders-up or tearers-down 
 of the people. Leadership, financial and political leadership, 
 should be improved in some way. Its deliberate violation of the 
 law should be punished. 
 
 QUERY — If the lower half of the social pyramid is made of 
 such uncertain material, is not the upper half in danger? 
 
 THE SCOUT — There certainly is constant danger, and it is 
 necessary to keep an eye to windward, and, if possible, to nip dan- 
 ger in the bud. 
 
 QUERY — Does that mean to so control the opinion-making 
 business that the seeds of social disturbance may not be sown? 
 
 THE SCOUT— Practically, yes. 
 
 QUERY — But all knowledge being a matter of opinion, who 
 is to say whose opinions are orthodox and whose heterodox? 
 
 THE SCOUT — The men who carry the greatest burden of 
 responsibility in feeding the world's millions. 
 
 QUERY — Do you mean the men who control the international 
 system of finance? 
 
 THE SCOUT — I mean the people who work to live, in gen- 
 eral, and the people who provide the ways and means to feed the 
 world, in particular. 
 
 QUERY — If the world's great financiers are particularly 
 included among these people, is there not some evidence of 
 incompetency noticeable in their ranks? Is the financial strin- 
 gency of 1907 not an evidence of this incompetency, or is it not, 
 perhaps worse, an abuse of power and opportunity? 
 
 THE SCOUT — Hard to tell the causes of financial stringen- 
 cies and panics. 
 
 OUERY — Do we not thoroughly know the causes of the 
 financial panic in 1893? 
 
 XLrx 
 
THE SCOUT — That is different. When the hand is played 
 out we know what was in it, but while the game goes on we can't 
 see all the cards. 
 
 QUERY — Has the insurgency movement in the ranks of the 
 Republican party anything to do with the causes of the recent 
 contraction of credit and financial stringency? 
 
 THE SCOUT — Well, if it is not a branch of the same reform- 
 movement, it is at least a happy accident. It gives a good oppor- 
 tunity to the powers that be to bring order out of the chaos of 
 industry, commerce and finance. The financial and political 
 reform-movements should go hand in hand, in order to put public 
 welfare on a secure foundation. The insurgents aim to stop the 
 abuses of political power, and especially those instigated by preda- 
 tory wealth. Their work directs itself against high finance and 
 speculative banking, and thereby affects the interests of interna- 
 tional finance, giving an originally national movement interna- 
 tional bearings, and causing far-reaching- disturbances, which may 
 have brought on contraction of credit, assuming unexpectedly the 
 proportions of a financial crisis . 
 
 We have just come to realize that the great problem before 
 us is how to make humanity work, how to feed it, and how to 
 keep it from fighting. To solve the problem, the world's 
 resources must be economically developed and distributed. In 
 order to do that in effective and peaceable ways, the men of great 
 wealth and enterprise — the world's financiers — must stand shoulder 
 to shoulder in honest endeavor. The men of money, who control 
 the banks and international credit-making power, must not use 
 funds entrusted to them, or even their own money, for purposes 
 of get-rich-quick speculation or even individual wealth-getting, 
 and they certainly must not engage in the business of getting- 
 rich-quick by corrupting the political life of nations. The finan- 
 ciers who control banks should arrive at an agreement among 
 themselves how to use their credit-making power, rather for 
 national and international benefit than for the amassing of 
 immense individual fortunes, further tending to bring discord into 
 the world of finance. Financiers must not fight among them- 
 selves, for this sort of fighting results in public calamities, contrac- 
 tion of credit, empty dinner-pails, etc. Nor must corrupt politi- 
 cal powers, here or there on earth, be permitted to interfere with 
 the work which the financial system has to do for humanity. 
 There must be no political grafting, no extortion of protection- 
 money or other interference with the legitimate work of handling 
 the bank's money; no speculative banking, which disturbs the 
 safetv of legitimate, industrial banking business, as has been the 
 practice in the United States. When people entrust their monej^ 
 
QUERY — Was the Sherman Law not a war-measure of the 
 same character as the Trojan horse, being one thing in appearance 
 and another in fact ? Was it not originally conceived on the other 
 side of the Atlantic by English financiers? Was it not imported 
 into this comitry throvigh the channels of diplomacy and journal- 
 ism, and represented as a necessary means to stop the alleged 
 aggressions of predatory wealth and the growth of monopolies in 
 this country, while in reality it was intended as a war-measure, to 
 destroy the independence of American financiers and force them 
 into submission to the greatest of all trusts and monopolies, the 
 world's international system of finance? 
 
 THE SCOUT — It seems to have had that effect, as far as the 
 great railroad men and some speculative financiers were con- 
 cerned, but the eft'ect may have been a mere incident; its original 
 purpose may not have been other than that of checking the growth 
 of monopolies, which threatened to become dangerous sources of 
 wealth in the hands of certain individuals. Planning against the 
 growth of monopolies and other practices of high finance in this 
 country, may have opened opportunities for European investments, 
 which were not included in the original plan or program, and thus 
 the reform-movement, originally only of national origin, may have 
 developed itself unexpectedly into a war of foreign money-interests 
 against American financiers. The men who stood sponsors for 
 the passing of the Shermaji Act certainly did not consider it a 
 loaded horse. If England's financial system be the g'reatest of all 
 monopolies, it is also the one least prompted by narrow self-inter- 
 est and least opposed to the best interests of civilization ,but one 
 making uniformly for the peace and prosperity of all nations. 
 
 QUERY — If the men who control the international system of 
 finance are prompted by none other than the laudable endeavor 
 to provide work and bread for the millions, why then do so many 
 of their representatives in this country endorse the abuse of legal 
 and judicial power? Why this desire to manufacture criminals? 
 Why these Dreyfus cases? Why the orders from afar to convict 
 anj'way, — "If you have no cause, find one)"- — Why all this under- 
 ground railroading? 
 
 THE SCOUT — When you go fox-hunting, and turn loose a 
 pack of hounds, 3'ou cannot guarantee that some curs will not join 
 in the chase and bring the fox to another than legitimate execu- 
 tion. 
 
 So far the discussion was carried on in a very friendly spirit 
 between old-time friends. Now came the final query, politely 
 put, but to the point, and not fit for publication. This query pro- 
 voked the wrath of the scout, indicating that there was "a nigger 
 in the fence." 
 
 LIII 
 
THE SCOUT— "You will be sorry for taking that side." 
 
 And friends of almost life-long standing parted, to meet as 
 friends no more. The questioner had taken no side; he had not 
 intended to take any, but he had given mortal offence by pointing 
 the analytic sword at the vulnerable spot in the back of Siegfried, 
 the mythical personification of the powers which aimed to conquer 
 the world in peaceful ways, and which are again coming to the 
 fore in civilization. 
 
 This little occurrence of giving offence may make it clear to 
 thoughtful minds that the financial question must not be probed 
 too deeply. Even a hint at the vulnerable spot gives mortal offence, 
 and endangers the safety of the powers which support civilization, 
 and which should not be destroyed or even disturbed, for such 
 disturbance might throw civilization back to the conditions mythi- 
 cally depicted in the Niebelungennoth. 
 
 The financial powers, aiming at peace, lay a fitting foundation 
 for the advancement of civilization, and this work entitles them to 
 respect. Money-sense must have a ruling voice in the world's 
 affairs, that the millions may live ; it must rule the system-work 
 in social life, to give stability' to the trunk and branches of the 
 national tree. Upon the foundation which the international 
 credit-system lays, all nations must build their national character 
 if they want to evolve fitness of survival. Money-sense must 
 underlie all reasonable endeavor; means-development must pre- 
 cede the evolution of the power to make reasonable use of means. 
 This assertion is scripturally authenticated. The abuse of the 
 credit-making power is possible, but it is probably not one of the 
 now dominant intentions of the powers that be. Our civilization 
 may safely trust its material and relative welfare to the financiers, 
 who at present control the world's resources and their distribution. 
 Even ambitious and sceptical Germany seems to have endorsed 
 the international credit-system. 
 
 In essaying the subject of errors of thought and their evil 
 influence in the development of civilization, we may safely leave 
 the financial question out of particular consideration. The love 
 of money may be at the root of all evil, as Timothy will have it, 
 but if so, it is only an incidental cause of evil. The Old Testament 
 points to errors of thought as the original cause of evil, and this 
 cause should be fully elucidated before considering any incidental 
 causes. If errors of thought can be corrected, and better lights 
 placed before the modern mind than those which the ruling opin- 
 ions furnish, then the men of money may never again abuse their 
 power; they may rather seize the opportunity to lastingly serve 
 civilization. But the opportunity of correcting errors of thought, 
 so as to improve human character, is very distant. Probably no 
 
 LIV 
 
to banks, they must feel that it is being used legitimately for the 
 industrial support of the world and for public good, and not for 
 speculative purposes, to create money-greed and billionaires. And 
 the legitimate banker, who has to trust other bankers, must feel 
 that this trust is not being abused, and his money rendered inse- 
 cure by speculation. Speculating with banking money is the 
 most dangerous phase of gambling; it is one of the things which 
 must be stopped, if the millions are to be fed to best advantage. 
 The msurgent movement materially aids in solving the great 
 problern. 
 
 QUERY — Is the Sherman Law a specimen of the assistance 
 which the insurgents render to the world's financial movement? 
 
 TfiE SCOUT — It certainly is. It tends to stop the amassing 
 of great individual wealth out of monopolies and unduly inflated 
 values. 
 
 QUERY — That sounds very nice as a general proposition, but 
 in its particular application is it not a specimen of special legisla- 
 tion with a vengeance, and entirely outside of all constitutional, 
 statutory, defined principles of law-making? Is it not an unde- 
 fined law, which can be applied to one man or combination of 
 capitalists, so as to make them criminals, and to other men or 
 combinations of capitalists, working in the self-same way, so as 
 to make them appear as doing an honest, legitimate business? Is 
 this kind of legislation not making it impossible for the members 
 of any great industrial corporation to know whether they are 
 doing a legitimate or a criminal business, until their case has been 
 adjudicated in all the courts of the land? Even if finally adjudi- 
 cated, have the judges not power to change their opinions regard- 
 ing the legality of corporate operations under this law^could 
 they not condemn those tomorrow to whom they have given a 
 clean bill of health today, or vice versa? Is the Sherman Law 
 not of such an undefined and undefinable character that it places 
 too much power in the hands of opinionated thinkers, occupying 
 political and judicial positions? 
 
 THE SCOUT — The politicians have not the power of ultimate 
 decision; the courts have it. The character of the covirt always: 
 has much to do with the just or unjust application of the laws, no 
 matter how well and clearly defined they be. The courts we have 
 to trust, and I think we may safely do it. 
 
 QUERY — Can we trust them to have Salomonic or Judas 
 Iscariot sense, or both, or neither ? 
 
 THE SCOUT — The judiciary, as the highest national power, 
 has not often allowed justice to miscarry. 
 
 QUERY — Are not the lower and the higher courts of the land 
 a long distance apart, and is it not slow and expensive traveling 
 
 LI 
 
from one to the other? Is there no danger in making laws 
 which enable the same judge to stamp the same act either as 
 criminal or as legal, right and reasonable? 
 
 THE SCOUT — The courts are not liable to abuse this power. 
 
 QUERY — Certainly not. They are not going into the busi- 
 ness of legal spoliation or judicial blackmail. But does not the 
 very fact that a court has this power to consider the managers of 
 great commercial enterprises criimnals, if it so chooses, open the 
 door to confiscation of property, by scaring capitalists to hand 
 over fortunes rather than run the chance of being accused, brought 
 to trial, and possibly convicted? Did it not have this exact effect 
 in some cases we know of, where hundreds of millions involved 
 were transferred, under threat of criminal investigation? 
 
 THE SCOUT — The Sherman Law was not to blame for the 
 most notable of these cases, but the uncertainty which attaches 
 itself to the construction of all laws, even those which are fairly 
 well defined. And then these wrongs occur only in times of war, 
 when much is considered fair which otherwise would be con- 
 demned. The powers that be are forced to make war for honest 
 purpose, for establishment or maintenance of Right, but the 
 camp-followers speedily appear on the scene to rob the wounded. 
 
 QUERY — Were certain great newspaper interests not forced 
 to la}^ down their independence directly to the powers that be, 
 during the last contraction of credit and because of it? 
 
 THE SCOUT — Directly, hardly; indirectly, probably. The 
 Ishmaelites in the opinion-making business, like the Ishmaelites in 
 the banking business, are not working in the best interests of civi- 
 lization. Civilization and justice do not suffer by putting the 
 bridle on them. 
 
 QUERY — What if national interests should ever clash with 
 international interests, for instance, with those of the interna- 
 tional system of finance? Would the power of national courts 
 prevail over the international interests, or vice versa? 
 
 THE SCOUT^ — The Lord only knows! When reasoning 
 ends, fighting begins, and the big fellow presumably can make the 
 little fellow see on what side Right lies. 
 
 QUERY — Were the Sherman Law and the last financial crisis 
 not two conceptions, hatched in the one nest by birds of passage, 
 for the purpose of solidifying the financial factors and regulating 
 the credit-making power in the world ? 
 
 THE SCOUT — Hard to read the thoughts and intent of men! 
 The insurgency movement and the Sherman Law seem to be 
 admirably adapted for the work of correcting abuses of power in 
 financial and political circles. They look like parts of a well- 
 studied program. 
 
 LII 
 
it can, and arrogating to itself all the good things of life, by fair 
 means, if possible, if not, by foul means? Will the average man 
 not naturally seek to overreach his fellow-men, and must the Men 
 of Mammon not alw^ays be on the lookout that they are not being 
 so overreached by the people? And vice versa, must the people not 
 always fear the greed of the Alen of Mammon? 
 
 Until effective truth-telling forces conviction, the practically 
 thinking world of this age will continue to doubt that the silent 
 Sphinx can be made to talk and tell the story of human evolution 
 out of animal life, which it symbolically represents. But even if 
 the causes of human evolution could be fully elucidated and con- 
 viction forced upon the doubting mind, even if gisty judgments 
 could be made to take the place of uncertain guesswork and 
 delusive opinions, even if vitally true lights could be diffused 
 throughout the public mind, the work of civilization might yet be 
 farther from success than it is now in the hands of financiers who 
 put shoulder to shoulder in laboring for the world's material 
 development. Knowledge, even if it be thorough-going, falls still 
 a long way short of the power which can make world-wide civili- 
 zation a lasting success. The power to know is a very dififerent 
 thing from the power to do. It differs from it as does the seed 
 from the plant; the seeds may fall upon infertile soil, or the young 
 growing plant may be crowded out by weeds and never produce 
 the healthful growth of free-agency doing powers. 
 
 For these reasons, the men of finance have a right to be jealous 
 of their position. They have even a better right to keep a watch- 
 ful eye toward the opinion-making business than had the Roman 
 church in medieval days, for modern financiers do proceed in 
 accordance with time-approved and scripturally authenticated 
 principles as yet, while medieval Catholicism proceeded in accord- 
 ance with its own misconceptions of Scripture. 
 
 Modern finance means to deal reasonably with the world, if 
 the world makes reasonable and not antagonistic response. It 
 means to rule the world reasonably, if possible, if not, by force. 
 It is ready to receive better lights than those now before it, and 
 to act by them, but it doubts, and justly doubts, the possibility of 
 securing these lights and of putting them to effective use, for even 
 if all the original causes of existence, which are considered scien- 
 tifically unknowable, were fully and fairly elucidated, this eluci- 
 dation might not 3'^et insure any advance in civilization over and 
 above the foundation which the financial .system lays at present. 
 The possibilities of building into height, in better ways than 
 money can accomplish, depend, not on improving the thinking 
 powers alone, but on taking knowledge out of the workshop of 
 thought into the workshop of nature and living consciousness, 
 
 LVII 
 
and causing it to grow in the public mind into conscientious free- 
 agenc)^ determining character. 
 
 Essaying the subject of errors of thought in a destructive way, 
 by pointing to the vulnerable spot in the back of Siegfried, is 
 illegitimate endeavor. It is destructive criticism, which tears 
 down but does not build up. What intellectual development needs 
 is the evolution of mental powers to proceed critically and dis- 
 cerningly in devising ways and means of harmonizing the bread- 
 winning systems with those of social organization; thereby prac- 
 tically solving the Riddle of the Sphinx. Theoretically, in these 
 pages, we hope to solve this "ever-problem," by elucidating the 
 causes which make civilization a healthful growth or a dying de- 
 g^enerate, infested by lingering- disease. 
 
 The best way of getting away from the position which the 
 Men of Mammon must hold is to organize society for the devel- 
 opment of social and intellectual leadership. The body of the 
 social jelly-fish probably does not need better clarified knowing 
 powers than it now possesses. It is a natural product, endowed 
 wtih natural knowing and doing powers, which serve it well 
 enough, but its head — social leadership — -needs to be stimulated 
 to grow intellectually in due proportion to the physical growth 
 of the body. If the intellectual and social leadership of modern 
 civilization were as efficient as they could be and ought to be, the 
 financial "earth-lions" could be made as tame, as happy and 
 beloved as the domestic cat, publicly venerated in ancient Egypt 
 as bemg of divine character. The Gods Shu and Tefnuit were 
 domesticated earth-lions of financial and territorial greed. 
 
 The international financiers, in their jealous care of their own 
 and the world's interests, are liable to be more wrathful in their 
 opposition to theoretical or practical reform-movements than ever 
 was the Papal hierarchy in the middle ages. They are satisfied 
 with the present status of intellectuality and with the present 
 opportunities of wielding their power. Like the public, they do 
 not want to see any improvement in the present knowing and 
 doing powers applied to themselves, which might interfere with 
 their present procedures. They are still willing to permit the 
 formation of national organizations of a limited character, in 
 order that those who are not altogether satisfied with the best 
 regime that financial talent can establish may still have an oppor- 
 tunity of organizing themselves for the promotion of national 
 interests. 
 
 If the knowing and doing powers in public leadership be not 
 improved by a permanent organization of people who devote 
 themselves to that purpose, the rule of the financial powers of the 
 world is liable to develop itself into what the ancient Japanese 
 
 I.VIII 
 
man of great financial sense ever can be brought to believe that 
 the people could be raised to a character-height where they would 
 not steal if the opportunity offered, where they would tell the 
 truth if lying served them to better advantage , where they would 
 subscribe to the rule of reason if it were not backed up by force. 
 
 The possibility of so raising public character is indeed very 
 remote. Even the first step on the way to the solution of the edu- 
 cational problem, that of correcting the erring use of the facul- 
 ties of thought, and thereby stopping evil at its original source, has 
 its great difficulties, the chief difficulty being the evolution of 
 lights of consciousness, true to the causes of human origin and 
 evolution, for if these causes be not elucidated, then opinion, of 
 uncertain value and virtue, will continue to rule the world for 
 better or for worse. No man of financial sense, at this stage of 
 intellectual development, would take any stock in the assertion 
 that a thorough knowledge of Fact is within the reach of the 
 human mind. He might admit that better lights than those now 
 ruling the world could be developed to control civilized life, and 
 that improvement in social conditions could be brought about 
 thereby, but he would probably hold that these lights would be 
 opinions still; they would not be thorough-going and infallible 
 knowledge. 
 
 No man of financial sense, at the present stage of intellectual 
 development, could be induced to believe that the extension of 
 knowledge could place the leadership of civilization in better 
 hands than his own. The Men of Mammon look upon themselves 
 much as the conventionally pious look upon their idea of God the 
 Father — as the author of civilization. While the Men of Mammon 
 do not pretend to have lifted the soil upon which we live out of the 
 deep, they consider that their financial sense has been the active 
 cause of social evolution , since it made the development of the 
 earth's resources and the feeding of the millions possible. They 
 therefore look with something of a fatherly eye on the people, and 
 have done so ever since the dawn of historic civilization. The 
 fatherly eye, however, has not always been one of universal love 
 and benevolence. Even the early Babylonians had learned to con- 
 sider the Men of Mammon as dangerously sensible, and rather 
 rapacious than reasonable. According to rriodern archaeologists, 
 they spoke of them as "earth-lions," and their sacred writings 
 charged them with arrogating to themselves all the good things 
 of life. 
 
 Later civilizations have usually looked with much suspicion 
 upon the regime of finance, expressed by the words "by reason or b}- 
 force."' The rule of reason usually had to take a back seat as the rule 
 of arbitrary force eventually always came to the fore. The Men 
 
 LV 
 
of Mammon, as fathers of civilization, do not seem to have been 
 the most affectionate parents in the history of civilization; they 
 seem to have applied a good deal of corrective spanking" to the 
 public baby, when it would not be good, from the finantial point 
 of view. Hence, the world has come to look with as much distrust 
 on the regime of Mammon, as the Men of Mammon feel toward 
 the possibility of the world behaving itself, if not forced to do so. 
 If the men of money doubt that the public character can ever be 
 so enlightened and elevated as to keep it from breaking through 
 the restrictions of the Decalogue, if power and opportrmity pre- 
 sented themselves, the people have learned to look upon the men 
 of money as weaving spiders in social life. 
 "The weaving spider, what cares he. 
 
 For love or hate, for friend or enem}^? 
 His only aim in life — utilit}'." 
 
 The men of finance view all facts in social life from the stand- 
 point of utility, and they consider individual man as a machine in 
 the utility-system. The wor Id, on the contrary, looks upon sys- 
 tem and machinery as means to the end of improving social life 
 and its own well-being; it refuses to be looked upon as a means 
 of service to financial system; it sees its welfare as the great end 
 of all endeavor. 
 
 Thus the viewpoints of Men of Mammon and of the public mind 
 stand irreconcilably opposed to each other. Neither one consid- 
 ers the' other as absolutely trustworthy. The world hopes for 
 something better than to be ruled by weaving spiders. The men 
 of finance can see no possibility of the world's mental emancipa- 
 tion to such an extent that force would not have to come to the 
 rescue of failing reason in maintaining the order of civilized life. 
 
 Unquestionably humanity has been improved and civilization 
 made possible by verbal evolution of the elementarj^ knowing 
 powers of man, but has historic civilization ever been improved by 
 the conversion of man's animal intelligence into word-vested 
 intellectuality? Did not the early work which the gift of lan- 
 guage enabled man to do, differ widely from the influence which al- 
 phabetical language has exerted upon the human knowing powers 
 during the later — the historic — ages? Has the world been im- 
 proved by learning to know that the earth is not the centre of the 
 universe, or that life is a product of evolution and not a hand- 
 made thing? Could the world be improved by making the 'world- 
 proce'ss thoroughly known in all its features and phases of causa- 
 tion, from Alpha to Omega? Why should such knowledge make 
 the masses of the people builders-up rather thantearers-down of 
 social organization? A¥ill the world not always travel in the 
 line of least resistence, in the hope of getting-rich-quick, as best 
 
 LVI 
 
knew as the Dynasty of Xanthai, with which we will make our- 
 selves familiar later. 
 
 If there is any possibility of bringing' the social masses in the 
 way of right-living, it is by way of fully enlightened and high- 
 character leadership. If there is any way of establishing peace 
 on earth within national and international life, it is by evolving 
 free-agency character to that height where it will seek peace on 
 the foundation of goodwill, and not on the foundation of self-in- 
 terest. 
 
 Peace cannot be established on the foundation of self-interest, 
 as the Men of Mammon may seek to do it; it must be established 
 on the foundation of goodwill, in order to become a lasting factor 
 in national and international growth of civilization. 
 
 The way of establishing peace on the foundation of goodwill 
 is the now unknown way which pre-historic antiquity has formu- 
 lated in the sacred writings of the great cults. When we will 
 become thoroughly familiar with the original meaning of these 
 writings, we may find them to be of great value to modern civili- 
 zation. 
 
 ixx. 
 
THE RIGHT TO RULE INDIVIDUAL GREED AND COMMON INCOMPETENCY 
 
 The natural intelligence of the Pilgrim Fathers, somewhat 
 tinged with bigotry, perhaps, introduced Christian civilization 
 into this country, in an endeavor to get away from the arbitrary 
 and unfair rule of opinionated minds. 
 
 Life in the Old World during the middle ages Jiad been 
 accursed with the self-assertion of individuals who had usurped 
 social leadership, or who had, by fair means or foul, put thsm- 
 selves into control of the affairs of their fellow-men and of civiliza- 
 tion. This individual control had imposed hardships upon the 
 masses, and thereb}^ caused the public mind to look upon the 
 assertion of individuality as a cause of evil. The world had strug- 
 gled for centuries to escape from the fetters of old-time prejudices 
 which supported the privileges of the governing individuals and 
 their systems, but in finally effecting its escape from the bondage- 
 imposing systems of individual government, it reached into the 
 assumption that the individuality must never but the majority 
 must always rule, and that the ruling power at every moment of its 
 procedure must derive its ri'ght from the consent of the governed. 
 In accordance with these convictions grew the tendencies toward 
 democratic government which eventually led to the establish- 
 ment of this republic. The excesses in individual and monarchial 
 forms of government reacted into the excesses in democratic insti- 
 tutions. Too much individuality in the former gave way to too 
 much public enmity toward individualit}' in the latter. 
 
 The establishment of democratic ideas failed to take into 
 account the influence of perverted intellectuality in the public mind 
 and of great popular delusions. 
 
 The masses undoubtedly have rights which the rulers must 
 respect, but have the rulers not also rights which should be res- 
 pected? Is Right not a thing which must be viewed and sustained 
 from all sides? Is it right and reasonable that the little developed 
 intellect and limited free-agency character in the social masses, 
 known as public opinion and sentiment, should control the highly 
 developed intellect and character of the natural born leaders? 
 Should the knowing and doing powers of lesser development con- 
 trol those of higher -and greater development ? Has quality in 
 human nature no rights which quantity should respect? Is it not 
 true that the masses rarely have the ability to rule themselves, 
 
 LX 
 
that their intellectual development never can keep pace with the 
 complexity of requirements in great and growing civilizations, 
 and that therefore the}- need the guidance of exceptionally qualified 
 minds and of highly evolved free-agency character? Does 
 this needed gtiidance in the growth of civilization, by way of breed- 
 ing, not naturall}- develop some classes better qualified for leader- 
 ship than others?, and does this development not naturally pro- 
 duce permanent ruling powers, which rise above the masses much 
 as the head in the human organism rises above its body? If the 
 quantity of civilized constituents needs qualified individuality 
 for guidance and leadership, has that individuality no rights which 
 demand respect? Does the assertion that the majority must rule 
 not mean that the unthinking", easily misled, always incompetent, 
 and often but little scrupulous masses should control the destiny 
 of civilization? 
 
 Let it be admitted that the masses usually mean well, but to 
 mean well does not necessarily imply the power to do the right 
 thing at the right time, so as to insure social welfare. 
 
 EDUCATION VERSUS INSTRUCTION 
 
 Competent leadership being needed, the ways and means to 
 its development demand attention. So far, modern civilization 
 has not given the subject the necessary attention. Our thinkers 
 have not yet come to properly distinguish between education and 
 instruction — between the process of drawing the consciousness 
 of life out into the realm of spoken thought and the modern meth- 
 ods of cramming ready-made ideas into the mind. They have 
 virtually ignored the truly educational requirements which evolve 
 free-agency powers and truly qualified genius for leadership. They 
 have concentrated all their attention upon a certain kind of alpha- 
 betical instruction, and this instruction they have misnamed 
 education, and applied it both to the masses in the public school- 
 system and to the presumably better qualified intellect in the uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Modern education builds its system of knowledge upon 
 no natural foundation. It cannot lay claim to any understanding 
 of fundamental truth. It builds abstract systems of thought into 
 the intellectual atmosphere, without giving them a healthful foot- 
 ing on the terra firma of living consciousness. 
 
 Tlie gospel of relative truth, upon which rnodern learning 
 builds, is an artifice invented by self-sufficient thought, which has 
 severed its connection with living consciousness. 
 
 The principal error in modern education is that of crammin 
 readv-made, word-vested ideas into the mind,, by way of instruc- 
 tion, without leading the living consciousness, naturally active in 
 
 LXI 
 
 g" 
 
the undercurrent of life and mind, out into the Height, Depth and 
 Extent of intellectual evolution, by way of that education which 
 makes the rightful use of language its main endeavor. This error 
 in mental training has produced the present one-sided intellectual 
 development, which pushes onward in the opinion-making busi- 
 ness, but which does not evolve the powers of the understanding, 
 needed for the rightful use of opinion and for competent leader- 
 ship in advancing civilization. The alphabetical training of mind, 
 as practiced in public schools, produces much categorical and dic- 
 tionary knowledge, without evolving the reasoning powers needed 
 to make rightful use of the knowledge produced. 
 
 The juciging and reasoning powers of both the people and 
 their leaders are more or less perverted by the one-sidedness of 
 hiodern methods of instruction misnamed education, and while 
 those methods continue to prevail, the one-sidedness and super- 
 ficiality, by instruction produced, cannot be corrected, and the 
 twentieth century mind will not regain the ability of putting itself 
 on a proper foundation of conscious understanding, nor will it be 
 able to elevate itself intellectually in naturally organic ways above 
 the level of bread-winning sense on which it now grovels. Con- 
 tinuing to think much in the way in which opinions are now pro- 
 duced, the modern mind will drift further and further into con- 
 fusion of ideas; it will deceive itself. The masses, little given to 
 discerning thought, will not only deceive themselves, but the ten- 
 dency to self-deception will be fostered by their much thinking 
 leaders. The spreading of deception, consequent to the loose and 
 delusive way of thinking in general and to alphabetical instruction 
 in particular, will carry the confusion of ideas, known as the "con- 
 fusion of tongues", so far that eventually neither leaders nor led 
 will know right from wrong, and that the endeavors of both will 
 result in their own undoing. 
 
 Perverted intellectuality has ever been and still is the curse of 
 all historic civilizations. 
 
 The public mind notices that the conventional and mechanical 
 way of thinking in dictionary terms about categorical and ready- 
 made ideas produces great results in applied arts and sciences — 
 great chemists, mathematicians, etc. — and from the recognition of 
 this fact it jumps to the conclusion that this mechanical way of 
 thinking may be trusted to also produce great results in thinking 
 about aflfairs of life. In this jumping from the mechanical work 
 of thought to the living work of nature, the public mind deceives 
 itself. A great thinker in the mechanical ways of science is not 
 necessarily a great thinker in dealing with the chain of natural 
 causation. Nature is not a chemist nor a mathematician. Life 
 is not a chemical product ; it is a product of organic procedures, 
 
 rxii 
 
which are unknown and unknowable to either chemists or mathe- 
 maticians, as, in fact, to all mechanical thinkers of a scientific 
 bent of mind. The public mind misjudges the character of the 
 foundation of scientiiic thought, and it is inclined to overestimate 
 the extent and value of scientific work. Science is all right in its 
 place, but its place is not in political, legal or social affairs. 
 
 The popular belief that all educational, legislative and political 
 nonsense cannot do any lasting harm to this civilization, is error; 
 as is also the popular expectation that all social derangements 
 will correct themselves in the future of this nation, as they seem 
 to have done in the past. These assumptions are as unfounded 
 as is the expectation that mechanical sciences will produce social 
 order. The evils which beset organic life may right themselves 
 if the natural growing powers are left undisturbed to do their work, 
 but when intellectual perverts arise, as they are now doing in this 
 nation, to disturb its life politically and legislatively with hammer 
 and tongs, the laissez-faire spirit on the part of the masses is liable 
 to meet greater and greater disturbances. 
 
 THE FUTILITT OF POPULAR HOPES 
 
 The public mind entertains great hopes that betterment of 
 social conditions will be brought about by the advance of modern 
 •learning. In entertaining these hopes, it deceives itself. It does 
 not realize that the whole fabric of modern learning stands on the 
 categorically excavated and deadened foundation of naturally 
 organic intelligence. It does not realize that the fullness of living 
 intelligence is converted by the procedures of alphabetical intellec- 
 tuality into the hollowness of categorical and other abstract ideas. 
 
 The minds, intellectually excavated and categorically recon- 
 structed, were once known as "whited sepulchres", for the rea- 
 son that the fullness of natural intelligence, by the intellectualizing 
 methods, had been converted into the hollowness of categorical 
 ideas, which did not contain the living, organic Gist of Fact, but 
 which made talk of truth, virtue and justice a false and death-deal- 
 ing pretense. 
 
 The alphabetically intellectualized thinker does not realize 
 that the intellectual excavating and categorical reconstruction of 
 natural intelligence destroys the working order of the mind and 
 substitutes delusive artifice in the way of thinking for natural 
 knowing power and the ability to do the right thing at the right 
 time in the way of living. If our intellectuals realized this fact, 
 they would know the original conception of Biblical "Scribes and 
 Pharisees" ; they would know that the great reputation of modern 
 learning is largely a false pretense, and that modern thought pro- 
 duces word-pictures and terminological diagrams of truth, virtue 
 
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and justice, without any understanding of the workings of life or 
 of its requirements. 
 
 Twentieth century thinkers do not reaHze that modern learning 
 has one fatal defect which results in the perversion of the intellect 
 and in the consequent evil influence of so-called enlightenment upon 
 civilization. The modern thinker is unable to distinguish between 
 the consciousness of life and the consciousness of thought. He 
 does not know that the natural function of thought and language 
 is to elucidate the consciousness of life — that living consciousnes.s 
 which accompanies natural causation — and that for the proper 
 performance of this function it is necessary for the Thinking" Ego 
 to employ means by which it can connect the workshop of thought 
 with the workshop of nature, so as to obtain access to the living 
 raw material of fact — the elementary consciousness of creative 
 principles of procedure and phases of causation. The modern 
 thinkers do not understand that it is necessary for thought to enter 
 the very workshop of nature in order to do its vvork of intellectual 
 enlightenment and discipline properly. They do not understand 
 the "reasons why" in natural causation, and especially the reason 
 why thought cannot do its work as a civilizing agent properl}' if 
 it is not cognizant of the creative principles in the chain of natural 
 causation — of the very causes of development and evolution 
 which generate the order of life. The modern thinker has not yet 
 brought himself to see the fact that if thought proceeds in its work 
 of enlightenment, without understanding the workings, procedures 
 and principles of natural causation, it cannot produce anything bet- 
 ter than abstract, imaginary and hollow pictures of knowledge ; 
 nor the further fact that if thought dresses its abstract and imagin- 
 ary products in the wordy garb of truth, virtue and justice, it 
 deceives itself and all the world. 
 
 All enlightenment produced in the way of thinking and speak- 
 ing, which does not include a full and fair understanding of natural 
 causation, is aBstract and imaginary. 
 
 To the deadened intelligence of the intellectualized mind the 
 work of modern thought may appear meritorious, but, as a fact, 
 it is a false pretense and delusive artifice. The ideal systems pro- 
 duced by modern thovight have a deadly categorical character 
 which belies the organic character of living consciousness. Until 
 such time as modern thought again puts itself in possession of 
 the forg-otten means of language by which the Thinking Ego 
 may efifect its entrance into the workshop of nature and revive 
 man's organic consciousness of the organically working causes of 
 life in the process of nature, so long will its work be much of a 
 false pretense and a cause of spreading popular delusions, and so 
 
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long will the hope that the advance of learning will better social 
 conditions prove futile. 
 
 Modern thought, as it now proceeds, by alphabetical and 
 grammatical means of language, can only see the outside of the 
 workshop of nature, and it can only see even this outside in special, 
 fragmentary and one-sided ways. These ways of seeing nature 
 do not supply the mind with the best obtainable raw material of 
 knowledge. 
 
 No thinker of this age seems to realize the fact that learning, 
 confining itself to the categorical use of alphabetical means, can 
 never produce permanent betterment in social conditions, that it 
 must always remain ignorant of the causes productive of condi- 
 tions, and that such ignorance deprives the mind of ability to con- 
 trol conditions as is necessary to public welfare. 
 
 While mental training in civilization is confined to instructive 
 methods, which make an opinion-factory and categorical store- 
 house of the human mind, there can be no healthful intellectual 
 evolution, and while this evolution is non est, the mind cannot pro- 
 duce a healthful growth of free-agency character and of civilized 
 life. 
 
 The development of man's original knowing powers by the 
 various uses of the various t3qDes of language, as well as the influ- 
 ence of- intellectual development upon social development, is a 
 subject of foremost importance, not at all understood by modern 
 thinkers; it is not easily explained in a few words and it is per- 
 haps not just here necessarj' to pursue this possibly dry subject 
 much further, it being fully elucidated by the thousands of ves- 
 tiges of ancient art which will be produced later and which tell 
 at a glance more than can volumes of terminological explanation. 
 It it but necessary here to note that there is a great difference 
 between organization and system — between the organic and the 
 systematic use of language — ^ between reasoning from cause to 
 consequence and syllogizing — between the prosopopeia methods 
 of definition and the categorical system — between gisty judg- 
 ments and opinions — between talk to the point and hollow talk 
 — between evolving character and tissue-building, etc., etc. 
 
 THE CATEGORICAL DEVELOPMENT VERSUS THE ORGANIC EVOLUTION 
 
 OF THE INTELLECT 
 
 The organic evolution of the human intellect makes truly 
 humane civilization possible; the categorical development of the 
 human intellect, when standing apart from and opposed to its or- 
 ganic evolution, makes civilization a sweat-shop and a death-strug- 
 gle for existence. The Gods are the active causes in the work of or- 
 ganic evolution ; the intellectualized devils rule in the work of cate- 
 
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gorical and other systematically fatal developments. All the sacred 
 writings of antiquity emphatically agree with this one statement 
 of Fact. 
 
 The organic evolution of the human intellect, which makes 
 civilization possible, causes thought to proceed organically after 
 the manner of nature, and thus proceeding, the mind naturally rea- 
 sons from cause to consequence. In this natural way of reasoning, 
 the mind evolves free-agency knowing and doing powers, and per- 
 chance, also, that goodwill toward mankind, required for the rule 
 of right and reason and the establishment of peace in civilization. 
 
 The organic evolution of the intellect, however, is a very differ- 
 ent matter from its categorically systematic development, which 
 is now promoted and sustained by all modern educational endea- 
 vors.. Organic evolution of intellectual powers can only be the 
 result of the proper and timely use of organic ways and means. 
 Thought and language are the ways and means by which the intel- 
 lectual powers can be evolved out of natural intelligence. The 
 organic use of thought and language has been abandoned during 
 historic ages, as alphabetical development of mind has come to 
 prevail in so-called educational endeavors. 
 
 While language had its original organic character, it gave 
 natural expression and voice to the consciousness of organic life. 
 Men at one time spoke after the manner of nature — after the 
 organizing principles in the process of life. Their thoughts gave 
 voice to living- consciousness. The alphabetical and grammatical 
 development of the intellect, however, came to displace the natural 
 and organic use of language; it changed the attitude of thought 
 toward living consciousness and toward the natural working- order 
 of mind by substituting categorical states of consciousness, termi- 
 nologically expressed, for the organic workings of living conscious- 
 ness in the human mind. 
 
 Alphabetical and grammatical development of language gave 
 the mind explicit categorical states of consciousness, partly repre- 
 senting and partly misrepresenting nature's work, but in doing 
 this, it deadened the living, organic consciousness of mind and 
 made intellectuality an artifice. As the thinking mind became ad- 
 dicted to the grammatical use of language and to the now all- 
 prevailing practice of dealing in categorical states of consciousness, 
 it fell to ignoring the organizing causes active in the process of 
 existence, as well as the organic ways and means of the mind which 
 could evolve free-agency character and its reasoning and determin- 
 ing- powers . This ignoring of the organizing causes deprived the 
 alphabetically intellectualized mind of its ability to judge Fact 
 fully and fairly, and to reason from cause to consequence, because 
 it ignored the natural foundation of the thinking consciousness — 
 
common sense and native reason — virtually separating the think- 
 ing faculties from the living powers . It is this separation which 
 makes all judgments of right and wrong, of good and evil, neces- 
 sarily a mere matter of opinion. 
 
 Opinions, formulated in the categorical and self-sufficient way 
 of thinking", have always led to the invention and establishment 
 of fatal systems of law and order in civilization, thereby making 
 civilized life a hell on earth and subjecting it to the unreasonable 
 rule of perverted intellects. 
 
 The artificially intellectualized mind may usually retain its 
 good intentions, but it loses its means of carrying these intentions 
 into healthfvil eft'ect. It may continue to talk of Gods, but it can- 
 not do godly work b}^ the mechanical and systematic means at its 
 ■command. The Gods do organic work by organic means; the 
 intellectual devils in civilization do system-work by systematic 
 means; so the authors of sacred writ asserted, as we will see by the 
 story of Sammael in later volumes. 
 
 The Thinking Ego, which uses systematic means without 
 understanding of org^anic principles, makes civilization an un- 
 natural thing, dependent on the work of abstract thought, opinions 
 and prejudices. It makes that appear right which is not 
 right and that wrong which is not wrong". It manufac- 
 tures artificial criminals and imaginary heroes. It rules the world 
 in accordance with the appearance of truth, virtue, justice, but 
 in violation of sense and reason; it rules in accordance with opin- 
 ion-made laws, without due vmderstanding of natural causes and 
 consequences. 
 
 Men of pronounced opinions, who are strangers to right and 
 reason, rule the land, from the supreme courts down to the small- 
 est political flunkies, in accordance with the hollow talk of learn- 
 ing and opinion-made systems, and in violation of right and rea- 
 son. 
 
 All factions of the ruling" powers in civilized life now act in 
 accordance with the requirements to fatal systems and in dis- 
 turbance of the healthful growth of civilization in general and 
 national life in particular. 
 
 Public opinion, by artificial intellectuality deluded, endorses 
 the existing opinionative regime to its own detriment, as it did 
 in the dark ages out of which we have but just emerged, seem- 
 ingly only to return into the fatal relationship of ignorance, in- 
 tolerance and hatefulness. Once again, the opinions, by pervert- 
 ed intellectualit}' produced, are elevating the deadly letter of 
 opinion-made laws over the spirit of justice. Once again, right 
 
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and reason are sacrificed to popular delusions, and the opinions 
 of intellectual perverts are given absolute control of social affairs. 
 
 The greatest and latest step in advance of our industrial 
 devedopment, Jtlie incorporation of industrial effort, by former 
 laws duly sanctioned, is now being placed on trial for violation 
 of that most absurd specimen of opinion-made laws, the Sherman 
 Act. The machinery that successfully serves to feed a hundred 
 millions of people is being violently assailed by intellectual per- 
 verts and by political and other parasites. The intellectual per- 
 verts who have usurped control of the law-making and adminis- 
 trative functions in this land, imagine that they are sustaining 
 the welfare of commonwealth when, as a matter of fact, they are 
 threatening destruction to the economic foundation of this coun- 
 try, as well as to its independence of foreign credit-systems. They 
 accuse our industrial leaders of acting criminally in restraint of 
 trade, when, in fact, they themselves are acting legislatively, 
 politically and criminally, not only in restraint of trade, but in, 
 restraint of right and reason. 
 
 THE ORGANIC OR FIGURATIVE AND THE LITERAL OR CATEGORICAL 
 
 USE OF LANGUAGE 
 
 There is a great difference in the manner in which human 
 speech can be used. The most noticeable difference arises in the 
 organic or figurative use of language, which only hints at living 
 consciousness and represents its workings in picturesqiie ways, 
 as opposed to the literal or positive categorical use of language, 
 which ignores living consciousness and definitely encases only 
 products of the thinking consciousness in dictionary terms. Lan- 
 guage which follows living consciousness pursues a naturall}- 
 organic logic of common sense and native reason, while language 
 which deals only with the thinking consciousness proceeds in 
 syllogistic and other byways to the natural highway of sense and 
 reason. As language leads thought over the highway or byways 
 of logic, so does it evolve or develop the intellect in natural or 
 artificial ways — in organic or in categorical ways. ■ 
 
 The categorically enlightened but organically perverted 
 intellect of the college-bred mind exerts an evil influence on 
 man's natural powers of forming naturally sensible and reason- 
 able judgments with regard to social requirements. All its efforts 
 at truth-telling result only in a multiplication of opinions; and 
 this multiplication produces myriads of social side-pullers with 
 legislative and judicial ambition, bent upon forcing human nature 
 to proceed through the letter-of-the-law systems. 
 
 The positive use of language, which produces and multiplies 
 pronounced opinions, also increases the tendencies to side-pulling, 
 
 LXVIII 
 
decentralization and disorganization within the body poHtic. It 
 causes the invasion of society by loud-thinking intellectuals in 
 the field of politics, law, religion, philosophy, etc., who would 
 remodel human nature and improve society according to their 
 opinions. These loud-thinking intellectuals labor in the way of 
 establishing all sorts of so-called ideal but really irrational sys- 
 tems for the regulation of social life. 
 
 THE PARASITIC CHARACTER OF SOCIAL FUNCTIONARIES 
 
 As intellectual development comes to take a stronger and 
 stronger hold on social life, so multiplies the system-work in 
 civilization, as also the need of employing functionaries to attend 
 to these systems. The functionaries so employed are largely of 
 a parasitic character; they do work which would not be needed 
 in a well-organized society, and in doings this work they not only 
 disturb but they prey upon the organic economy. Swarms of 
 bureaucratic parasites, who invade civilization, pose as regula- 
 tors of disorders by irrational opinions provoked. Thus, the 
 non-organic, systematic, grammatical use of language, which 
 produces erring thinkers, introduces parasitic invasion of the 
 body politic, and destroys the work of civilization, the growth of 
 which organic language has promoted. 
 
 If the categorical perversion of the intellect, by educational 
 measures, is not brought to an end, nation-builders will find them- 
 selves slaving to feed social parasites, in the near future again 
 as in all the historic past. 
 
 Organic intellectuality has always been recognized and per- 
 sonified as a social temple-builder, an agathodaemon, a Holy 
 Ghost; while categorical types of intellectuality have been de- 
 picted as hordes of fallen angels, as kakodaemons, evil genii, etc. 
 
 Organic intellectuality, it was said, stimulated the organic 
 growth of human society by dividing the benefits resulting from 
 social growth equitably, fairly, reciprocally, among- social con- 
 stituents. 
 
 Categorical intellectuality is ambitious to improve the good 
 work of organic intellectuality; it talks in the way of high 
 promises about peace and plenty, while its work destroys the 
 organic growth of the human intellect and of human society by 
 substituting' systematic for organic procedures of thought and 
 act — procedures which benefit none but bureaucratic and other 
 parasites. 
 
 The way to social conditions of Hell is paved with the good 
 intentions of categorically perverted intellects. 
 
 All the intellect-controlling languages now spoken are of an 
 
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alphabetical, extra-analytic type; they are indeed effective means 
 to the end of doing special detail-work, but they have no truly 
 organic or unifying pov^ers; hence the diversity of opinion regard- 
 ing the requirements of civilized life, regarding right and wrong, 
 good and evil, etc. 
 
 While the faulty use of language controls the intellectual 
 powers and disturbs the natural working order of mind, while 
 hollow talk of categorically excavated minds prevails in the busi- 
 ness of manufacturing, dealing in and storing up ready-made 
 opinions, fatal system-work will prevail in civilization over all 
 truly organic endeavor, and the masses of the people will be forced 
 to shed sweat and blood for the purpose of feeding and pleasing 
 the myriads of political, legal and financial parasites, who, con- 
 sequent to the spread of sham intellectuality, invade the body 
 politic and prey upon its substance. 
 
 THE POWER NEEDED TO UNIFY OPINIONS 
 
 Categorical intellectuality, with its peripatetic dictionary 
 definitions, is efficient in developing special ability to know and 
 to do, but it lacks organic and unifying powers. Our educators 
 might easily supply these intellectual deficiencies of the age if 
 they realized their own shortcomings and understood their busi- 
 ness. Until our educators perfect themselves and the intellect- 
 controlling use of language, it will in all probability be useless 
 for loud thinkers to attempt to place facts into lights truer than 
 the now prevailing opinions furnish. 
 
 The exchange of opinions, categorically evolved in learned 
 discussions, is holloM' talk, whether it takes place in the auditor- 
 ium of the universit^^ in the halls of Congress, or in the meetings 
 of the recently organized Commonwealth or Economic Clubs. All 
 categorically enlightened intellects are excavated; all categorical 
 talk is hollow; it leads the Thinking Ego about the workshop 
 and storehouse of thought, but it does not give it power to enter 
 into the workshop of nature and to study the workings of cause 
 and consequence in the only way in which they can be studied. 
 All learned discussions on social questions of right or wrong, of 
 good or evil, are only methods of threshing intellectual straws 
 into intellectual chaff. Never will grains of truth, with sprouting 
 and growing powers, spring from learnedly enlightened intellects 
 of the modern type. The talk of these intellects may duly or 
 unduly diversify special knowing powers, but it cannot unify the 
 powers of the specially active intellects in the only way in which 
 special powers can be unified, i. e. the naturall}^ organic way of 
 thinking, speaking and doing. This organic way must ever 
 
 LXX 
 
remain inaccessible to learned minds which ignore the truly edu- 
 cational or evangelic evolution of livi 
 lizing pow^er in their way of thinking. 
 
 cational or evangelic evolution of living consciousness as a civi- 
 
 THE GOSPEL, OF RELATIVE TRUTH, 
 
 which underlies the methods of public instruction, produces 
 the prevailing unnatural ignorance of natural causation and the 
 deplorable inability of learned minds to reason from cause to con- 
 sequence. It virtually pushes fact-knowing, truth-telling and 
 right-doing into the background and makes systematized lying 
 with regard to cause and consequence the actual aim of intel- 
 lectual endeavor. Of course it does not do this intentionally, but 
 it does it actually. 
 
 Relative truth in the way of thinking, lays the foundation 
 for relativity in all social conditions, and that relativity, so 
 founded, is of a fatal, inimical and deadly kind, a kind entirely 
 different from the reciprocal relationship which prevails in the 
 process of life, in the individual organism, and which should pre- 
 vail in family life and organic society. 
 
 While relative truth characterizes the work of modern 
 thought, relative honesty will characterize the dealings between 
 man and man. What truth is in intellectual development, that 
 the dollar is in social development, namely, a standard of worth. 
 If the accepted truth represents nothing better than the hollow- 
 ness of prevailing opinion, then the obtainable dollar will repre- 
 sent nothing better than the hollowness of vain endeavors in social 
 life. Honest truth and honest money are organically reciprocal 
 and not fatally related things. 
 
 The almighty dollar is not altogether honest when relative 
 truth, vested in opinions, rules the world; it is only relatively 
 honest; it is honest from the point of view which the greater 
 capitalist takes in robbing the lesser. It is honest from the point 
 of view of foreign financiers, who are now scheming and pro- 
 gramming to reduce our multi-millionaires to submission to their 
 credit-system, but it will not appear to be so altogether honest 
 when we look from our own national point of view into the pro- 
 cedures employed. The people of the United States have yet to 
 learn the lesson that honest truth and honest money must go 
 hand in hand in intellectual and social development. If tainted 
 truth is being made the circulating medium in intellectual life, 
 if systematic lying is employed as a method of educating the pub- 
 lic mind, then will the money — -the circulating medium of indus- 
 trial and commercial activity — be tainted. When the current 
 of public mentality and morality runs out of the channels of right 
 
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and reason into the byways of irrational opinions, then we can- 
 not hope for a high-character use of money. 
 
 Some of our learned thinkers seem on the verge of realizing" 
 that there is something wrong in the present attitude of the public 
 mind, of politicians and of the judiciary toward the leaders of our 
 industrial development. Realizing this, they are making efforts 
 to perfect their insight into existing facts; they are organizing 
 so-called non-partisan clubs for the discussion of political ques- 
 tions, ostensibly for the purpose of clarifying the public intellect, 
 but really for the purpose of retaining their unholy hold on the 
 opinion-making business and their power to lead the public mind 
 from one delusive promise into another, in the tentative way in 
 which intellectual perverts experiment in the afifairs of men. 
 
 The intellectual perverts, who are most active in reform- 
 legislation, make every effort to force the natural corporate 
 growth of industrial development, now striving to proceed in 
 accordance with the peaceful principles of organization true to 
 life, backwards into the formerly prevailing fatal principles of 
 undue competition and strife, which lead to deadly war. They 
 imagine that the industrial leaders and trust-magnates, or so- 
 called barons of industry, are in a fair way of re-establishing 
 something like a medieval feudal system, in order to prey upon 
 society. They so imagine because they cannot reason from cause 
 to consequence ; they cannot draw reasonable conclusions from 
 historic observations; they do not understand the principles of 
 development and evolution; they jump at conclusions from one 
 prejudicial opinion to another. By their hap-hazard pro and con 
 talk they hope to establish the rule of right and reason, without 
 knowing it. The hope in vain ; the ignorance which inspired it 
 is unnatural. 
 
 WHO SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH? 
 
 The intellectualized minds, in their unnatural ignorance and 
 shortsightedness, do everything that can be done to establish the 
 rule of wrong. In their efforts to legislate the national growth 
 of industry — the trusts — out of existence, they force them into 
 international expansion and under the control of the international 
 credit-system, which no national jurisdiction can reach or dare 
 interfere with. Thus they destroy the power of this country to 
 deal with their own affairs, and they make this presumably free land 
 a colony dependent on foreign financial skill ; they play directly 
 into the hands of the initernational programmers, who labor in 
 the cause of denationalization, in order to make all nations sub- 
 
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ject to their credit-systems. The denationalization-scheme now 
 masquerading under the name of "the open door policy", and 
 advancing by talk of free trade, tariff-reform, reciprocity, coali- 
 tion, peaee-programs and other movements by systematic lying 
 advanced, under pretense of caring for the good people, would 
 put this favored country on a par with countries less favored and 
 developed and all under the regime of the foreign money-mon- 
 archs, who rule the Unseen Empire. 
 
 The efforts of our categorically enlightened intellectuals 
 .make for the re-establishment of the deplorable conditions which 
 prevailed during the decline of the Roman Empire ; and worse, 
 for as the world-wide ambition of our intellectual perverts exceeds 
 that which ruled ancient Rome, so will its excesses establish condi- 
 tions of virtual slavery, even more deplorable than were those 
 under that regime. 
 
 In the present status of intellectuality, no one man or body 
 of men knows enough to rule even one nation as it should 
 be ruled, much less all the nations of the earth or civilization at 
 large. Subverting the rights of individual nations to any inter- 
 national power is therefore error, and the gravest kind of error 
 if that power be an international credit-system, a re-incarnation 
 of the time-defamed God Mammon. 
 
 Greed for money is a well recognized evil, but the greed for 
 the world-wide extension of power on the part of perverted intel- 
 lectuality is an unrecognized evil of greater force than money- 
 mania. , 
 
 Our intellectuals may be specially great systematizers, but 
 organizers they are not. 
 
 As some intellectual perverts, under the inspiration of foreign 
 financial programmers, cry for the open door policy, so do other 
 intellectual perverts, inspired with some absentee God-ideas, 
 make propaganda for the so-called christianizing of the earth, all 
 to the effect of working up a death-struggle among humanity. All 
 the present endeavors of our intellectualized thinkers to establish 
 absentee standards of worth will entail fatal consequences. True 
 and healthful standards of Light and Right must have living 
 character, and this character must be an organic growth. Health- 
 ful standards cannot be mechanically established things, sttch as 
 intellectual instruction would make them. Intellectuals, such as 
 are our positive thinkers, cannot even stimulate the natural growth 
 of standards, while they fail to understand the organizing princi- 
 ples active in nature, human nature and civilization. Intellectuality 
 which fails to understand these principles is sham intellectualitv. 
 
 i.xxin 
 
The more diversified its efforts and ambition, the more far-reach- 
 ing the evil consequences of its work. 
 
 Categorical intellects, such as all modern methods of educa- 
 tion produce, are class-intellects. Class-intellects produce class- 
 legislation; they either pit the masses against the stronger indi- 
 viduals in national life or the strong individuals against the 
 masses, and thus their work makes for fatal relationship, interne- 
 cine strife and social destruction. 
 
 The categorical intellect is the antipode of the living, organic 
 knowing and doing power, which works in reciprocal ways, pro- 
 ceeding by giving and taking equitably. The truly organic mind, 
 following in the way of native reason, never imposes duties with- 
 out according some adequate right and benefit in family and 
 social life. In this respect, the natural workings of the mind pro- 
 duce results quite dift'erent from those of the categorical intellect, 
 which proceeds only to establish fatal systems of prejudice and 
 privilege, by way of education and instruction. 
 
 The trusts are not products of the categorical way of think- 
 ing; they are not products of perverted intellects, such as is all 
 anti-trust legislation; but they are rather a natural growth, 
 resulting from the sensible conceptions of cause -and consequence 
 and from the concentration of individual effort in industrial ways. 
 The trust-system, while it remains independent of the interna- 
 tional credit-system, opens the door to a truly organic- and reci- 
 procal procedure between individual and nation, and makes it pos- 
 •sible to harmonize individual effort with national welfare by profit- 
 sharing. 
 
 The ancient Etruskans depicted the influence of perverted 
 intellectuality very effectively by ideograms showings the body of 
 the social octopus fighting its own head and the head fighting the 
 members of its own body, as also by ideograms illustrating the 
 tendencies of social constituents to overreach each other; for 
 instance, strong individuality trying to overreach the people, and 
 the people seeking to overreach and destroy the individual 
 strength and despoil it of its achievements. 
 
 Individuality must ever do all special work in national life, 
 but it must not do it to the detriment of the organic whole. The 
 individual must attend to the business of providing bread for the 
 million, as well as of attending to the welfare of commonwealth. 
 This nation, as a whole, or its government, in whole or in part, 
 can never carry along special business successfully; it cannot do 
 industrial, commercial or banking work; but it can share in the 
 
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profits due to the growth of individual effort, and thus make the 
 humbler or weaker constituents in social life profit by the success 
 of the abler or stronger. 
 
 The American public, by the hollow talk of delusive 
 learning deceived, listens hopefully to the reform-talk of our 
 intellectual perverts; it sympathizes readily with any and all of 
 the alleged reform-movements which are now under congressional 
 consideration, and most of which, if made factors in the social 
 system, would gradually make for the destruction of the character 
 of this republican government and the independence, welfare and 
 prosperity of the people. 
 
 Perverted intellectuality, now as ever, directs the sympathies 
 of the public into opposition to its own best interests. Thus, the in- 
 tellectual perverts and opmionated thinkers, who at present control 
 the law-making and administrative functions in this civilization, 
 are misleading the public sympathies, causing them to rejoice in 
 the ever fatal elevation of the letter of opinion-made laws above 
 the spirit of justice. They cause the public to rejoice in the injus- 
 tice which, under the name of legal rights, is being done to some 
 of the men who have built up America's industrial prosperity. 
 
 Public sentiment, by learned leadership deluded, would now 
 even sacrifice the authors of its own welfare to foreign financial 
 greed, not realizing that such sacrifice would entail disaster to 
 itself. 
 
 Intellectual perverts have made the American people believe 
 that the great wealth of some individuals, resulting from the con- 
 centration of industrial activity, is a cause of evil. This cause of 
 evil, however, exists as yet only in the perverted imagination and 
 in the undue ambition of politicians and lawmakers, for, as a mat- 
 ter of fact, the American people at present enjoy more favorable 
 industrial conditions than do those of any other nation. The 
 deluded public, by pulling down the great work produced by con- 
 centrated energy in industrial endeavor, hope to destroy the 
 money-evil, when, as a matter of fact, they only destroy their own 
 chances of making rightful use of the money-power in this nation. 
 The people, in destroying the representatives of domestic talent 
 ill finance and economics, destroy the national bulwarks of their 
 own prosperity and lay themselves open to the absolute control 
 of their national affairs by foreign money-monarchs. 
 
 Of course the people who sympathize with the present regime 
 of legal and political opinions mean well ; they are convinced that 
 they are on the right track of improving human nature and social 
 conditions, and of choking the life out of the alleged money-evil. 
 Yet they are largely indebted to the representatives of this alleged 
 evil for the present high water-mark of prosperity, which exceeds 
 
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all previous historic records. They do not realize that the sacri- 
 fice of domestic financiers and of the heads of the great incor- 
 porated industries to the at this time prevailing- opinion must 
 react unhappily upon their own welfare. They do not realize 
 that this sacrifice of domestic wealth only feeds and stimulates 
 the greater hereditary greed of foreign money-maniacs, who are 
 now waging an underhand war against the centres of our domes- 
 tic wealth. The people overlook the fact that these centres are 
 the bulwarks of national prosperity, and that their reduction must 
 entail the absolute dependence of this country on a foreign credit- 
 making power, which is now scheming and programming to make 
 itself the one almighty government on earth. 
 
 The public who, laboring under the influence of delusive 
 opinions, are now condemning the Amei^ican trust-magnates, are 
 inadvertently placing themselves directly under the regime of Mam- 
 mon's bloodless system of finance and credit. The semi-divine 
 Mammon is unlike our trust-magnates, inasmuch as he has no 
 sympath}' with human feelings and no particular national interests. 
 He does not waste his breath nor rack his brain, as do the Carne- 
 gies, Rockefellers, and other trust-magnates, in the possibly mis- 
 taken endeavor of doing the world some good by the endowing 
 of educational institutions and other public-spirited efirorts. Mam- 
 man says : "This I consider right, and all the world must so con- 
 sider it or sufi^er the consequences of damnation — of my condem- 
 nation." 
 
 MODERN SCRIBES AND PHARISEES 
 
 The admirers of relative truth, of opinionated justice, of judi- 
 cial honesty, of discreet morality, etc., have a natural tendency 
 to enjoy legal aggressions and outrages. They feel that the 
 undoing of some factors in society will somehow result in special 
 benefit to themselves. They never realize that the unreasonable 
 use of legislative and administrative power in civilization event- 
 ually reaches any and all factors in it, as it continues its systematic 
 procedures against organic society, against family and social life. 
 
 The Scribes, who write in the cause of relative truth, and the 
 Pharisees, who applaud the effects of judicial interference in 
 civic rights, are by no means exempt from the suft'ering-s imposed 
 by the rule of Mammon or of money, which they themselves set 
 afloat or support and in the successful career of which they rejoice. 
 The pharisaic tendencies in the public mind, which cause even our 
 best people to do homage to appearances and to aid and abet the 
 aggressive policy of the money-monarchs, never cause them to 
 think that the destroying angels of homes and of nations have no 
 love for make-believes. 
 
 LXXVI 
 
; Some of our American newspaper men and financiers have 
 already learned, to their sorrow, that Alammon marches onward, 
 regardless of the fate of either friend or enemy. When the friend 
 has done his work, the friend may go, and keep out -of the net of 
 the weaving spider if he can. 
 
 The God Mammon aims solely to perfect his system. Any- 
 thing in the way of his aim to Him is rubbish, which must be 
 removed, be it Lords or Senators, national feelings or creeds. 
 
 The writers who, in their self-interest, appeal to the evil pas- 
 sions of the people, their envious dispositions and their inclination 
 to pull down anything that rises above their own level, may event- 
 ually find that they have supported a movement which will not 
 right itself and which never again can be righted by any national 
 effort. They may learn too late that the destruction of national 
 bulwarks, such as the House of Lords in England and the Senate 
 in our own country have been heretofore, will entail disastrous 
 consequences to the people. When the head is severed from the 
 body politic, the body is helpless. 
 
 The people of England, as well as the people of America, are 
 rejoicing in the prospect of seeing the political and social heads 
 cut ofif their conservative government. But the people who so 
 rejoice may have a flood of tears coming", and also some gnashing 
 of teeth. , 
 
 As the people of England, who have always rejoiced in the 
 aggressive policy of their government, are about to be disciplined 
 by the monarchs of the Unseen Empire, so may the people of 
 America, who are now endorsing the same aggressive policy at 
 home and all sorts of judicial extravagances, find that the discipli- 
 nary work of finance extends to their own ranks with even greater 
 force than to the victims now on the rack. "Tolerate no rule of 
 wrong, even for a moment, for it mav reach vou", is the gist of 
 an Asiatic proverb, which it may be well to remember. 
 
 If the people tolerate, the passing of special laws, designed 
 against special interests not particularly their own, they will pro- 
 bably find that they have opened the door to legislative procedures, 
 which will destroy civic rights, national independence and welfare. 
 
 If the people cannot realize that the multiplication of special 
 legislative measures in civilization, directing itself against any 
 one factor, directs itself against the welfare of the whole and is 
 therefore iniquitous; if thev cannot realize that in point of special 
 iniquity the present construction of the so-called Sherman Act 
 exceeds anything on record as enacted in the halls of any legisla- 
 tive Narrenberg; if they will sympathize with the outrage of 
 making criminals of the heads of national industries, in accordance 
 with a law, by aggressive opinions inspired and carried along by 
 
 Lxxvn 
 
an iniquitous program, then they deserve no better fate than 
 awaits them under the rule of the absentee money-monarchs of 
 the Unseen Empire. The men who will destroy their own bulwark 
 of safety, the men who will bite the hand that feeds them, the men 
 who do not know the mainstays of their own welfare, who will 
 not put their shoulder to the wheel to save the national strength 
 which industrial trusts could give this country if they were pro- 
 perly licensed and made to yield their surplus profit to state and 
 national treasuries, are not fitted to enjoy the voting privileges 
 in a democratic commonwealth. 
 
 If it is true that the mass of the American voters occupy intel- 
 lectually as low a stage as the jelly-fish does physically, if it is 
 true that more liberty has been accorded them than their mental 
 and moral powers can successfully apply in sustaining the civiliz- 
 ing purpose, if it is true that this liberty to do the right thing in 
 advancing the cause of civilization amounts only to giving license 
 to do wrong, then we had better hail the advent of the foreign 
 God Mammon, who says that nothing better can be done for this 
 country than to feed, fatten and butcher the American hog. 
 
 If the majority of the American people are really so unreason- 
 able us to finally endorse the present rule of irrational opinion, 
 aiming to destroy the strength which concentration of energy has 
 given to American industry, if they are reaMy so unreasonable as 
 to seek the destruction of the causes of their prosperity rather 
 than the permanent incorporation of these causes in the body 
 organic, then our legal and judicial butchers may be properly pre- 
 paring the Augean Stables for coming events. 
 
 The world's money-monarchs have little chance, if inclina- 
 tion, to better the social conditions of unreasonable people. If the 
 people will act unwisely in regulating their afl^airs, the unseen 
 hand of foreign money-sense must take hold of public afifairs, to 
 restrict by specially minute legislation the evil effects which the 
 multiplication of unreasonable opinions produce in civilized life. 
 
 If we knew the facts, we might find that much of the present 
 mania for special legislation in this country is inspired by foreign 
 money-interests. The money-sense of the semi-divine Mammon 
 has a way of stepping in with legal measures, to check the excesses 
 of aggressive opinions and evil passions which, owing to the lack 
 of true mentality and morality, seek to control civilization . 
 
 Much special work is done well in modern civilization, but 
 is the great work of civilization ever well done? Money-sense may 
 do its own business in a profitable way, but can it do the wo,rk of 
 civilization as it should, be, de^ne? ,- i,!' ;- 
 
 , LXXVIII ;,'.'; 
 
The weaving spiders in social life do their program-work 
 through the categorically excavated intellects, which hold to the 
 relativity of knowledge and of conditions. If the people will ac- 
 cept the gospel of relative truth and of the relatively honest dol- 
 lar, preached by the intellectual perverts and parasites, then they 
 will have to accept the weaving spiders in social life as the legiti- 
 , mate rulers of civilization. 
 
 Now must the American people choose between improving 
 their own knowing and doing powers or preparing themselves to 
 submit to the regime of the God Mammon. If the people cannot 
 bring themselves to do their own thinking with due discernment, 
 they must expect that those who think for them and formulate 
 their creed of opinion will also attempt to direct and control their 
 energies. He who cannot do his own thinking must be prepared 
 to slave for those who think for him. If reason is non est in a 
 land ruled by a majority of opinions, in a land where quantity 
 rules quality, then money-sense must step in to save the drifting 
 ship of state from wrecking itself on the rocks of popular prejudice 
 and delusion. 
 
 The world-wide financial genius, who is now rising to again 
 resume control of the world's industrial affairs, would probably 
 content itself with attending to its own business if the people 
 would attend in reasonable ways to their own local, domestic and 
 national affairs; but if the people do not so attend, then the lesser 
 financial talent will speedily feel itself called upon to attend to 
 public business, and it will do this by special legislation and admin- 
 istrative rigor, and not by moral persuasion. 
 
 If the Anglo-Saxon race, and especially its American branch, 
 cannot bring itself to understand the fact that great evils and 
 much suffering- in modern life originate in errors of thought, by 
 education disseminated, then it will not be able to hold its advanced 
 position in civilization. If the intellectual leaders in our civiliza- 
 tion cannot realize that both Honest Truth and Honest Money 
 are indispensable requirements to the healthful intellectual, indus- 
 trial and national growth of civilized life, then their leadership 
 will not be lastingly successful. 
 
 If there is error anywhere in the educational work which 
 prepares the intellectual powers of leaders and people for the work 
 of civilization, then that error should now be eliminated. 
 
 If the scientific methods of looking at the outside of the work- 
 shop of nature and guessing at the causes of life and of death 
 within, is not the best way of arriving at a knowledge of the facts 
 necessary for civilized man to know, then the shortcomings of 
 the scientific way of knowing nature and life's requirements 
 should be exposed, and a better way of obtaining thorough know- 
 
 LXXIX 
 
Jedge of Fact should be found and prepared by sufficient explana- 
 tion. 
 
 If Christian Faith has fallen in the pitfall which categorical 
 ■definitions dig in the sensible and reasonable ways of thinking 
 .about Fact, and if it has substituted visionary God-ideas for the 
 ■organically working God-consciousness, then this faith, if it has 
 'fitness of survival and is to live, should be regenerated, in accor- 
 dance with the original meaning of the accepted text-book of our 
 'faith — the Bible. If the current translations of the Bible-work 
 are misconceptions of the original work and perversions of the 
 •original Thoughts and Intent, which do not appeal to sense and 
 reason, but which rather make religious faith appear ridiculous, 
 then the causes of the errors in the translations should be ex- 
 plained and the original meaning restored. 
 
 If there is systematic lying anywhere in civilization besides 
 in the work of science and theology, it should be brought to an 
 end by full and fair exposition of fact and by evolution of 
 living standards of Light and Right in the twentieth century 
 intellect. 
 
 If nature is a process, in which the causes of life and of death 
 are imperceptibly active, nature should be so represented, through 
 the channels of education, to all the world. 
 
 If the now conventional way of looking at nature through 
 the categorical ideas of matter, force, time, space, etc., and of 
 thinking syllogistically about these ideas, does not lead to rational 
 conceptions of natural causation ,then the errors and shortcomings 
 of this conventional way of obtaining- and disseminating alleged 
 knowledge of Fact should be exposed, and the true raw material 
 of knowledge and the true way of its intellectual elaboration 
 rshould be put in evidence. 
 
 If modern morality is unnaturally suspended from convention- 
 ally established categorical ideas of truth, virtue and justice, 
 which are not true to the organic causes of civilized life and its 
 requirements, if the public conscience is thereby made an artifice, 
 depending on opinions instead of standing on its natural footing 
 of self-consciousness, then the conventional ideas should undergo 
 .inspection and correction. 
 
 Intellectual forces, prepared in the conventional ways of edu- 
 'cation, have taken an aggressive hold in the affairs of modern 
 ■ civilization. Common sense and native reason are being" pushed 
 into the background by the aggressive opinions generated in intel- 
 ■Jectualized minds. 
 
 If natural intelligence must take a back seat and if intellect- 
 uality is to continue its rule, then the intellect should be purged 
 
 LXXX 
 
of its errors and made aware of its shortcomings, before its 
 destructive work in civilization becomes irreparable. 
 
 If the letter of opinion-made law is to be a ruling power in 
 civilization, let us make sure that there is nothing Satanic, diabolic 
 or devilish in the errors and shortcomings 'of the opinions which 
 formulated the written law. Let us not do as historic civilizations 
 have but too often done, i. e., go unawares under the regime of 
 legal and judicial methods, which are criminally faulty in their 
 conception. Any judgment which destroys the naturally founded 
 order of the mind or the healthful growth of civilization is tainted 
 with criminal tendencies, for when converted into a law and en- 
 forced as a standard of right it disturbs the working order of 
 organic life; it works injury to this or that efficient constituent 
 of organic society, and thereby becomes a crime against humanity. 
 
 Opinion-made laws have been known as special laws and have 
 been recognized as being tainted with criminal tendencies, because 
 they have general and particular systematic bearings, which are 
 not true to the organic order of life, but, as a matter of fact, are 
 so far from true that they often disturb and destroy it. Opinion- 
 made laws, when invariably and rigorously enforced, become the 
 destroying angels of society. They are framed with intent to 
 save society from wrong-doers, but they are the products of the 
 mechanical workings of thought; they have no living or life- 
 sustaining character; they have no upbuilding power, they can 
 only act restrictively and in pulling-down ways; they are, like 
 hammer and tongs, good only to do deadly work with. 
 
 Opinion-made laws, by reason of their deadly tendencies, 
 have but too often become instruments of destruction in the hands 
 of Folly and Greed. They have disturbed, destroyed and under- 
 mined the organic order in even the greatest historic civilizations. 
 When the men who wield legal, judicial and administrative power 
 fail to understand the reciprocal relationship of individual to 
 nation, they cannot make just, right and reasonable use of special 
 laws. They enforce the law, in violation and defiance of justice, 
 and thereby they bring ruin upon civilization. Laws, unjustly 
 enforced, demoralize the public mind, destroy common sense and 
 native reason , conscience and goodwill, and thereby brutalize 
 human nature. 
 
 If the people understood the original meaning of the Bible- 
 text, they would know that in the Old Testament the opinionated 
 genii in education and jurisprudence have been depicted as the 
 perverters of the civilizing purpose; and they would also know 
 that the New Testament describes the opinion-ridden mind as 
 "devil-possessed" in one way or another, daemoniacal, diabolic or 
 Satanic, that is, acquired in the ways of self-sufficient thought, 
 
 LXXXI 
 
used in the way of contradictory extravagance and with time- 
 defying persistence. 
 
 Our modern thinkers have placed the law-making business 
 upon the same faulty foundation upon which stood the ancient 
 Roman law, which made it impossible for the masses of the peo- 
 ple to lawfull}^ exist, and which, when enforced, caused the event- 
 ual collapse of the whole civilization. 
 
 The Christian lawmakers in the middle ages have shown 
 what perverted intellects can do in the way of making criminal 
 laws for the government of the people. Medieval' law for cen- 
 turies condemned the best of the people to torture and death to 
 please the opinionated and daemonized intellects, who controlled 
 civilization. The law-makers and the judges were the real wrong- 
 doers and the people were the sufiferers. Of course the people 
 imagined that the law was God-given and therefore entitled to 
 respect, when, in fact, it was born of the devilish tendencies in 
 the human mind. 
 
 It may be well for us to look at the modern system of law- 
 making and see whether it has similar defects . It is just pos- 
 sible that intellectual perverts are again monopolizing the law- 
 making business, robbing people of their civic rights, putting 
 new burdens upon the productive energies in civilization and 
 demoralizing- the public conscience, until sense of justice succumbs 
 to the spirit of hatefulness. 
 
 The people imagine that their intellectual and political lead- 
 ers are bent upon making laws which will sustain the welfare 
 of civilization, but in so imagining, they may err. No sane mind 
 would wish to so use the power of its opinions as to manufacture 
 criminals, yet the devilish tendencies in opinion-possessed minds 
 are making every effort to treat as criminals those who dififer from 
 them in point of partisan and opinion-made laws. 
 
 The talk that the people are being robbed by the violation 
 of the Sherman Act or by alleged land-frauds is credited by 
 the mass of the people, because it comes from high and respected 
 authority; but, as a matter of fact, a thorough investigation of 
 the question will show that the Act is in error conceived, and that 
 its rigorous enforcement is as devilish and destructive to civilized 
 welfare as ever was such enforcement of the letter of any opinion- 
 made law in ancient Rome or medieval days. 
 
 The growth of this civilization made the concentration of 
 energy in industrial channels a necessity. The industries had to 
 expand to suppl}^ the requirements of an expanding civilization. 
 The individuals then engaged in industrial pursuits had to extend 
 their working power by methods of incorporation or corporate 
 organization. The governments of all the States in the Union 
 
 LXXXII 
 
gave unrestricted license or charters to industrial, commercial 
 and transportation corporations. Some of these corporations 
 succeeded well and grew into extraordinarily profitable enter- 
 prises. Some envious or visionary opinion-makers advanced the 
 idea that the good people suffered injury by the growth of incor- 
 porated enterprise. To check this real or imaginary injury, the 
 Sherman Act was passed, as a piece of counteractive and special 
 legislation which no right-minded man should have endorsed. If 
 the government or the people had been too generous in giving 
 unrestricted charter to incorporated enterprises, they should have 
 thought of correcting this error rather by compromise than by 
 force of counteractive legislation. To sanction such counteractive 
 legislation is much like sanctioning the use of violence in oppo- 
 sition to scabs by labor-union men. Two wrongs do not make 
 a right, and both wrongs should be condemned. Be that as it 
 may in the case of the Sherman Act. If this Act had been used 
 in a timely way to counteract real or imaginary evils, grown out 
 of folly or legislative generosity, the measure had done its work 
 by fair means or foul when it brought the great trust-enterprises 
 into readiness to relinquish undue advantage and inordinate profit- 
 making. To push the law beyond this point of efficiency seems 
 to be as much of a crime as the throwing of brickbats by union- 
 labor into street-cars, or the dynamiting of buildings belonging 
 to enemies of the labor-union party. 
 
 The criminal application of the Sherman Act savors of^crime 
 against civilization and humanity, against commonwealth and civi- 
 lization; it is a most daring piece of program - work, by Philis- 
 tine greed inspired and by domestic folly sustained. The word 
 "Philistine" is here used in its original scriptural meaning, which 
 is very unlike any definition found in dictionaries. If the original 
 meaning of the stories of Samson and Delilah were known, the 
 program-work, of which the Sherman Act is an ominous feature, 
 could not progress as it does. The errors ,which have so often 
 brought disturbance and ruin upon growing civilization, could -not 
 repeat themselves if the public mind understood the scriptural 
 formulas which represent the workings of these errors. It is not 
 the purpose of these pages to throw more light upon this subject 
 or to do anything which might lead to the pulling of even one prop 
 from beneath the Temple of Living Stones. It is not within this 
 purpose to excuse or accuse any individual. Individuals are. what 
 nature, educators and dominant systems make them; they are 
 more or less right; at least their errors need not be considered. 
 The system needs every attention; it corrupts the individual; it 
 inflicts undue suffering upon the people. 
 
 LXXXIII 
 
The system-work needs investigation and correction. All 
 opinion-made laws savor more or less of injustice. If folly, greed, 
 ill-will or other perverted powers of mind enforce the letter of 
 the law, then such enforcement is criminal. If the public had 
 fully evolved discerning powers, they would readily see why the 
 excessive use of special leg^islation results in their own undoing'. 
 The proverbial saying: "Summum jus, summa injuria" has a mean- 
 ing which the voters of the United States should be made to under- 
 stand. 
 
 The pinch-heads who arg'ue that the resources of the country 
 must remain undeveloped, because the existing law does not per- 
 mit of their development, are not thinking in the ways of sense 
 and reason; and they who imagine that the men who attempted 
 the development of these resources are criminals in the eyes of 
 the law are looking upon their interpretation of the opinion-made 
 law as all-sufficient and infallible; in so looking, they give 
 evidence of intellectual perversion; and in arguing that this vio- 
 lation of the law should be rigorously prosecuted, with intent to 
 inflict criminal punishment, they show the devilish tendencies of 
 their minds. The perverted intellect sanctifies the work of opin- 
 ions and looks upon the letter of the thought-made law as an 
 inviolable dictate of right. 
 
 The resources of this country belong first to the now living 
 race and thereafter to coming races . If the immediate develop- 
 ment of these resources is an advantage to the living race, the 
 man who obstructs this development is out of order, and any law 
 which denies the right of such development should be repealed. 
 Any pinch-head who asserts that the men who are willing to em- 
 ploy their energies and risk their money in the development of 
 the country's resources are criminals, because they violate this 
 or that thought-made law, is simply a nuisance if not an eneni}" 
 to social welfare. The workers in productive industries are not 
 too prosperous at present : they support the regime of folly and 
 greed which places damnable burdens vipon their backs, and makes 
 them work overtime for half-pay to support broods of non-pro- 
 ductive and wasteful parasites. Any development of the country's 
 resources relieves the weight of the burden-bearers in social life. 
 Any special law which prevents the development of these indus- 
 tries places additional straws on the back of the already over- 
 loaded camel. If the brawn and muscle of the country ever come ' 
 to their senses, the parasites and pinch-heads will come to grief. 
 
 As the modern intellect is theologically perverted and incom- 
 peteni; to tell the truth about the God-consciousness, so is it 
 equally perverted in its legal and judicial endeavors, and so is it 
 
equally incompetent to minister to the requirements of civilized 
 life or to sustain its order by legislation. 
 
 In order to do civilizing w^ork successfully, the intellectualized 
 mind must learn to do justice to both the individual and the State 
 in any and all legal procedures, and in order to so do justice, it 
 must first learn something about reciprocal relationship, which 
 is of vital importance and which it does not know, and it must 
 at the same time unlearn much about categorical relationship, 
 which is visionary, delusive and destructive to life in its order. 
 
 In fact, at the present stage of mentality, few thinkers are 
 capable of realizing that all laws must do justice to both the indi- 
 vidual and the State, and that laws which disparage the interests 
 of either the one or the other are to be condemned as special laws, 
 having criminal character. The law-making business should not 
 remain in the hands of intellectual perverts, partisan politicians 
 or bureaucratic and other parasites. In fact, if the present law- 
 makings craze does not meet with speedy and effective correction,, 
 the work of the nation-builders in this republic will be destroyed 
 by parasitic aggressions. 
 
 Think of a lot of partisan politicians, sitting as a law-making 
 body to control industrial development, fighting for partisan inter- 
 ests , largely ignorant and certainly unmindful of the requirements- 
 of the people, overcharged with all sorts of opinions of what should 
 be and what should not be ,but having no thorough knowledge 
 of an}' subject under discussion! 
 
 Think of these partisan politicians endeavoring to block the 
 best way of feeding, clothing and housing the millions just be- 
 cause this best of economic ways has proven too profitable to- 
 some of the industrial pathfinders ! 
 
 Why not check the alleged undue profit-making of industrials,, 
 by making the people profit-sharers, and leave the most economic 
 way of providing necessities for the million open to the natural' 
 procedures of evolution, thereby enabling the producers of wealth 
 to keep pace with the growth of civilization and its requirements? 
 
 Why not give the actual wealth-producers a chance to rid 
 themselves and the nation of some of the parasites of folly and 
 greed? 
 
 Why permit partisan politicians to carry on a senseless and 
 unreasonable war of words for opinion's sake, at public expense,, 
 and to the disturbance and demoralization of the enterprises which 
 supply the nation's necessities? 
 
 Why increase the army of bureaucratic parasites to carry out 
 the experiments of folly and the policy of greed? 
 
 LXXXV 
 
Can a partisan government, such as ours, ever successfully 
 attend to any business in which special knov^^ledge and ability 
 are required? 
 
 Can a government without a permanent head, by conflicting 
 interests controlled and disturbed, do permanent business as suc- 
 cessfully as it should be done? 
 
 Are our politicians patriots or are they parasites? 
 
 They are patriots if they work for the best interests of the 
 people. They are parasites if they work for the perpetuation of 
 power in their party. 
 
 Do not all politicians work for party-interest rather than for 
 commonwealth ? Do any of them know the best interests of 
 commonwealth in any better ways than those traversed by con- 
 tradictory opinions? Do they not all talk to please the public, for 
 the purpose of sustaining and gaining party-power? Do the prac- 
 tical and professional politicians know the best interests of the 
 country any better than do the ignorant people? Do not all labor 
 under the same delusions? Could a politician succeed if he told the 
 truth? Would the people care to hear it? Do'nt the people want 
 to hear something more favorable to their interests than the truth, 
 something that promises more than is due them, something in 
 the way of pulling down the great in order to aid the small? Are 
 side-pulling politicians not tearers-down rather than builders-up? 
 Are they not parasites rather than patriots? 
 
 Think of allowing parasites to make the laws to govern the 
 producers ! 
 
 If the English-speaking people wish to retain their predomi- 
 nance as civilizers, they will probably have to change their pres- 
 ent course of advance. If the prosperity of these United States 
 and their healthful growth as a nation is to continue, it will pro- 
 bably be necessary for the people to unite in two great organic 
 efiforts for the purpose of making honest money and honest truth 
 the circulating mediums in industrial and intellectual endeavor. 
 
 First of all, the educational system should be re-organized, in 
 order to give the people honest truth as a circulating medium in 
 intellectual development, instead of the now prevailing opinions 
 and relative truths, for without honest truth the nations cannot 
 secure honest money. In the second place, the trust-system should 
 be extended by merging domestic capital and labor engaged in 
 agricultural and productive industries, into one great trust, to feed 
 and clothe the millions on a truly economic basis, and this trust 
 should operate, under restrictive charters, on profit-sharing princi- 
 ples with state and nation, in order to check the greed for the dollar 
 and, in fact, make undue profit-making impossible. 
 
 XXXXVI 
 
If the industrial development of this country is not to be 
 wrecked by partisan politicians, opinionated law-makers and para- 
 sitic invasion, it will be necessary for the voters of this country, 
 who are engaged in productive industries, to organize themselves, 
 from the day-laborer to the multi-millionaires who represent the 
 capital invested in trusts, for the purpose of giving this country 
 an actually honest dollar, fair facilities to feed the millions and 
 a national credit-foundation. 
 
 The present talk of honesty is hollow, or at least it is a rela- 
 tive conception of honesty, as is the scientific conception of truth. 
 
 Productive labor and capital, that is, labor and capital directly 
 engaged in industrial work, now support the entire wasteful 
 superstructure of civilization, the educational, legal , political and 
 financial system-work. The greater part of a dollar's worth of 
 labor performed goes toward paying the expenses of folly and 
 greed. The wage-worker actually never gets more than a small 
 percentage of the value of his work, hence the dollar which he 
 has earned is not honestlj^ paid. Undue taxation uses up a little 
 of it and the wasteful system-work, by folly and greed estab- 
 lished, consumes most of it. 
 
 The hundred millions of this nation must be fed, clothed and 
 housed to best advantage. The labor which does the work of 
 feeding, clothing and housing them must not be wasted through 
 injudicious management of national afifairs nor in maintaining 
 parasitic system-work; and above all, legal and political talent 
 must not be permitted to interfere with industrial afifairs, which 
 feed the millions. The parasite must .not impose hardships on 
 the producer, by, either legislation or administration or otherwise. 
 Legal and political talent is never competent to manage industrial 
 affairs successfully. 
 
 LAW AND LEADERS 
 
 Life is a product of organic causation and it has organic 
 requirements ; it can only exist while organic powers of mind 
 control it and minister to its requirements. Civilized life, like 
 individual life, is of organic character and not merely a systematic 
 thing or machine — not the merely mechanical work of thought, 
 but only organically evolved powers of the intellect can minister 
 to its requirements. Systematizing intellects cannot serve and 
 sustain the order of life in civilization. They can functionate as 
 tissue-builders, but they cannot officiate successfully as controlling 
 powers of civilized life; when they attempt such control they 
 disturb and even destroy the order of life in all its phases. 
 
 Historic civilizations have often gone to destruction because 
 they were subjected to control of systematizing intellects. 
 
 LXXXVII 
 
If religious faith is reduced to a thing of system by intellec- 
 tual reflections then it becomes a deadly, usually superstitious, 
 force in civilization. 
 
 If the work of education becomes a mere matter of system, 
 then it loses its virtue as a civilizing power. Systematic instruc- 
 tion can cram ready-made ideas into the mind, but it cannot 
 evolve the elementary powers of reasoning, discerning and doing, 
 so as to enable the intellectualized mind to make vitally true use 
 of its ideas and faculties of life. 
 
 If legislation and legal procedures, under intellectual influ- 
 ence, become entirely things of system, then they lose the char- 
 acter of justice and destroy it in the individual, thereby becoming 
 destroyers of human character and of civilization. 
 
 Law and order have their natural reason for being in the 
 organic workings and requirements of life. These working's and 
 requirements undergo vital changes, with which thought and its 
 system-work must not interfere. The causes of these changes 
 should be understood by the intellectuals who undertake to con- 
 trol the educational, law-making and judicial business; if not 
 understood, fatal errors will occur. Thought-made, word-fixed 
 laws, systematically applied to civilized life, always have disturbed 
 and eventually destroyed the organic order of family and national 
 life, and they will always do it. Laws, systematically used, are 
 unnaturall}^ used, and so used they cannot sustain life, which is 
 a product of natural order — of natural procedures. 
 
 Law must have its foundation in the fuU)^ evolved knowledge 
 and doing powers of life, mind and thought. Half-baked, imper- 
 fect knowledge, such as are all opinions, is not entitled to be con- 
 sidered as the embodiment of life-sustaining truth. 
 
 The fully evolved knowing and doing powers must comprise, 
 not only unquestionably true knowledg'e of the organic causes 
 and procedures in the process of existence which create and sus- 
 tain the order of life, but they must include the ability of making 
 life-sustaining use of thought and language and of the free- 
 agency doing powers. 
 
 To educational!}' evolve a thorough knowledge of natural 
 causation is not sufificient to make civilization a success by virtue 
 of intellectual leadership; it is necessary to discipline the intel- 
 lectualized mind, so as to evolve in it the ability to make due and 
 timely use of its knowledge. 
 
 Truth, virtue and justice in the process of living are very 
 different powers from those conceptions which assume these 
 names in the way of thinking. The mind which presumes to regu- 
 late or control the work of civilization must tmderstand the why 
 and how of this difference; it must understand the connection 
 
 LXXXVIII 
 
and reciprocal interaction of tlie living powers and of the thinking 
 faculties. 
 
 There is no difficulty in the way of evolving this indispens- 
 able understanding except the lack of proper and efficient rheto- 
 rical means. The modern dictionary definitions will not serve 
 the purpose. Their power does not reach into the organic work- 
 ings of life, mind and thought. The methods of definition used 
 in so-called sacred writings do extend into the organically living 
 consciousness, but these methods, however simple, are not under- 
 stood by modern thinkers. Modern thinkers are nothing better 
 than opinion-mongers; they only deal in opinions when they 
 attempt to discuss the working of anything that stands connected 
 with oreanic causes. 
 
 ' fe' 
 
 Opinions of truth, virtue and justice are not the proper 
 foundation upon which to build legal systems. Opinions are very 
 imperfect forms of knowledge, and when they are given control 
 of civilization their imperfections result in violations of the order 
 of life. 
 
 The opinionated minds which assume law-making authority 
 are usually so tinged with criminal tendencies that they will never 
 stop for any reasonable consideration of fact, but push onward in 
 the manufacture of criminals who violate the letter of the law, 
 even unto the ultimate destruction of civilization. 
 
 How and why opinion-made laws destroy the organic work- 
 ings of civilization is fully explained in the sacred writings of 
 the great cults, and should not need an}- additional explanation 
 by any modern thinker. But it is bound to get this explanation 
 again, as it often did in former ages during the rise of mental 
 activity. And if this explanation comes too late, then its correc- 
 tive effort will be ineffectual and the inevitable destruction will 
 be precipitated. 
 
 Opinions are uncertain forms of knowledge, and in part really 
 products of unnatural ignorance. If opinionated minds insist on 
 the control of the law-making business, they really are possessed 
 by criminal folly. 
 
 Opinion-made laws have but too often made legislative anarchy 
 the ruling power in civilization, and imposed horrible inflictions 
 upon the people. 
 
 Think of ancient Rome and the middle ages ! 
 
 The opinionated law-makers in past civilizations have done 
 much more criminal work than ever did the law-breakers. They 
 have established regimes of legislative anarchy and perpetuated 
 them for centuries, to the ultimate destruction of nations and 
 
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races. Therefore, do not hold the opinion-made laws all holy — 
 hold them in abhorrence. 
 
 The legal ideas of the modern jurists are no more holy, 
 healthful, life-sustaining, than were the God-ideas of medieval 
 bigots. Intellectual perverts usually attach superstitious value to 
 their ideas and demand undue reverence for them . 
 
 No nation can afford to permit intellectualized minds to add 
 to or to take away from the scripturally founded law. Thought- 
 made laws are holy and health-sustaining only when they are 
 founded on a fully and fairly evolved organic self-consciousness, 
 intellect and free-agency character . That evolution implies' a 
 thorough knowledge of the organizing causes in nature and human 
 life, and no modern thinker can claim any such knowledge, nor 
 any competent free-agency power. 
 
 All modern thinkers are unnaturally ignorant of natural 
 causation. Therefore the people had better trust to religious be- 
 lief than to alleged knowledge. 
 
 The present theological ignorance of testamentary formulas, 
 which deal with right-thinking, right-speaking and right-doing, 
 may be wiped away in a day, and theologians may suddenly step 
 into the front rank of recognized fact-knowers and truth-tellers. 
 
 Scientific ignorance of natural causation is much more difficult 
 to correct than is theological ignorance, which now makes reli- 
 gious faith ridiculous. The modern scientist is usually positive 
 that he is on the right track of getting to know all that is to be 
 known, and therefore he is but too often invincibly ignorant. The 
 theologian ,on the contrary, is in doubt as to his interpretations 
 of the Bible-work, and therefore his palpable errors may be cor- 
 rected. Some philologist may tumble to such now unknown dif- 
 ferences in language as exist between Sanskrit and Prakrit, and 
 between defi>nitions formed in accordance with the natural law 
 of Doing and definitions formed in accordance with the categori- 
 cal conception of Being. If this should occur, we would quickly 
 learn the now unknown truth embodied in the Bible-work. 
 
 Whenever the original meaning of testamentary and other 
 sacred writings becomes known to theologians and to the people, 
 there will be a speedy ending of the business of making opinions 
 and special legislation ruling powers in modern civilization. 
 
 UNNATURAL IGNORANCE 
 
 The modern scientist misrepresents the process of existence, 
 nature and natural causation by his word-knowledge, opinions, 
 theories, hypotheses, ologies and isms, etc.; he does not repre- 
 
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sent any of his detailed statements as referring to something taking 
 part in the one world-process; he does not know this process; he 
 does not understand its workings because he does not properly 
 exercise all his natural knowing powers. 
 
 The niodern theologian misconceives the thoughts and intent 
 of the Bible-work, for the reason that he will not make himself 
 familiar with the laws of organic language. 
 
 The modern philologist talks learnedly about his guesses 
 and conceptions of the meanings of words, but he talks without 
 understanding, even in a rudimentary way, the connection be- 
 tween language and either the living consciousness or the think- 
 ing consciousness. 
 
 The modern logician talks of true and false conclusions of 
 thought, but he talks without any understanding whatever of the 
 workings of natural cause and consequence; he does not even 
 understand the bearings upon life and consciousness of his own 
 categorical rhetoric. 
 
 The modern jurist talks authoritatively of right and wrong, 
 without any knowledge of either the true or false foundation of 
 the written law. 
 
 All this ignorance of scientists, theologians, philologists, 
 logicians, jurists and other classes of intellectualized minds, is 
 inexcusable and most of it is unnatural. Yet all these intellectual 
 perverts and nincompoops undertake to dictate to the actual 
 "temple-builders" and workers in the ways of productive indus- 
 tries, whose labor supports the millions, what is right and w^ong 
 in their own business, and what they must do and must not do; 
 and if the workers in productive industries dare to deviate from 
 the opinions of the intellectual perverts, laid down as laws, then 
 all the swarms of social parasites are called upon to condemn as 
 criminals those workers who do the only truly intelligent and 
 really honest work in civilization. 
 
 Folly and Greed should be eliminated as much as possible 
 from the control of civilization. These two factors in the com- 
 pound of the twentieth century mind are the worst enemies of 
 our civilization - builders; they demoralize and crush the social 
 burden-bearers; they furnish the inspirations to the prevailing 
 hollow talk of upbuilding, when, in fact, they stimulate the tear- 
 ing-down causes. In order to stop the aggressions of Folly and 
 Greed, modern civilization needs more fuU}^ and fairly evolved 
 knowing and doing powers than are now to be found in the ranks 
 of the educators, legislators, jurists, politicians or diplomats. 
 
 The leaders of modern civilization mean to work in the best 
 interests of the masses, as they see these interests by the light of 
 
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their opinions; but the opinionated Hghts deceive them. They 
 cannot bring themselves to do better work than they are now^ 
 doing. They have not the means of improving their methods. 
 They cannot procure better intellectual lights than those now con- 
 tained in opinions. Lacking gisty lights of consciousness, they 
 cannot help engaging in the delusive war of words for opinions' 
 sake. They cannot really break through the tissue of thought- 
 made word-knowledge, so as to enter into the organically living 
 consciousness, and see fact in its own true light. In discuss- 
 ing alleged facts, they can only talk about their opinions, but they 
 cannot verify their opinions nor disprove contrary opinions, for 
 they do not know Fact as it is in itself. 
 
 Several thousand years ago, two great epics made their ap- 
 pearance in Greek civilization. One known as "The Iliad," de- 
 picted the "war of words for opinion's sake", which has ever 
 disturbed intellectual and social evolution; and the other, known 
 as "The Odyssey", depicted the return to the natural way of 
 thinking and speaking' which makes Fact, as it is in itself, know- 
 able, and thereby makes possible the formation of gisty judg- 
 ments and the return to the rule of right and reason. Our con- 
 ventionally enlightened educators, who think they know all about 
 these epics, will in all probability deny that there is anything 
 like the thought and intent just mentioned in them. They know 
 the words in these epics; they know what they think about the 
 meanings of these words, but they do not know that antiquity 
 employed a very different method of defining words used in epics 
 from that now known. Not knowing the methods of definition 
 emplo3'ed, our learned educators fail to understand the thought 
 and intent embodied in the work. They positively know what 
 they think they know, but they only know what they think. They 
 know no facts beyond their thinking faculties, and they only know 
 those products of the thinking faculties which are manufactured 
 in their own mechanical way of thinking. The conventionally 
 enlightened or intellectualized mind of this age has no idea that 
 the human mind has knowing powers beyond and apart from its 
 thinking faculties. It limits itself to its thinking faculties in all 
 but the work of applied sciences, in which it makes special facul- 
 ties of perception, dealing with special outer aspects of the world- 
 process, furnish the raw material of knowing. The intellect 
 which cannot understand all the workings of the fundamental 
 knowing and doing powers is merely half baked, half developed, 
 unfit to tell the truth and unable to do the right thing or cause 
 it to be done. 
 
 None-of our educators or intellectual leaders understand the 
 workings of the elementary knowing and doing powers. All are 
 
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therefore unduly limited in natural intelligence and untitled for 
 sensible or reasonable leadership. All know their opinions; none 
 know facts as they should be known. Their ignorance is un- 
 natural; their folly aggressive. Their work in civilization is an 
 imposition. 
 
 The right-minded people in civilized life, who aim to rise 
 above the mere level of industrial pursuits, should organize to check 
 the impositions of Folly, by developing fully and fairly all the ele- 
 mentary knowing and doing powers of the human mind after the 
 manner of nature in organic ways. Give the world better light 
 than opinions, and Reason and Right will rise to rule in civilization 
 in a way in which no man will wish to see his fellow suffer, much 
 less impose undue suffering upon him, as now do the daemonized 
 minds of our foremo.st thinkers. 
 
 If our educators discontinue making systematized lying a 
 method of intellectual development and a factor in all intellectual 
 endeavors, then all the legal, political, industrial and financial 
 system-work, which now hampers and blocks the course of 
 national development, will speedily be brought into harmony 
 with the organic evolution of society. 
 
 As long as unnatural ignorance and systematized lying- produce 
 intellectual perverts in the ways of co-called education, will the 
 people have to bear all the burdens which folly and greed can 
 impose upon them. 
 
 While the unreasonable war of words for opinions' sake goes 
 on, peace cannot come to civilization, nor good-will to individual 
 aims and endeavors. 
 
 The war of words for opinions' sake demoralizes the know- 
 ing and determining powers of the mind; it undermines the 
 foundation of nature's native nobility; it extinguishes the natural 
 lights of self-consciousness, native reason and conscience ; it 
 destroys the living standards of self-respect; it generates mental 
 bias, ill-will and hatefulness; it corrupts the intellectual powers; 
 it introduces self-deception and spreads popular delusions, causing 
 general demoralization. 
 
 As the basis of unnatural ignorance and the present spreading 
 of evil-working opinions appears the scientifically established 
 dogma of Relative Truth, now vipheld by all the great educational 
 institutions of the land. 
 
 Effective and beneficial is the modern S3^stem of "vocational" 
 instruction, bvit the cultural endeavors of our so-called educators 
 are an abominable bunch of shams. 
 
 "Vocational" instruction facilitates the construction of some 
 required system-work in feeding, clothing and housing the mil- 
 lions; but the so-called cultural education, which should elevate 
 
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the character of the masses above the bread-winning systems, 
 being much of a sham at this time in our civilization, rather tends 
 to demoralize public character than to upbuild it. 
 
 The words "higher education" suggest much small ambition 
 and many great delusions, but nothing whatever connected with 
 Fact-knowing, Truth-telling or Right-doing. 
 
 Education which holds to the relativity of all truth makes the 
 people believe that the prosperity of one individual in civilized 
 life necessarily destroys the prosperity of many other individuals. 
 The people, acting under this belief, look upon the trusts as a 
 necessary evil. It is true that in non-organic conditions of exis- 
 tence, in conditions of war and in conditions of fatal relationship, 
 the gain of one man entails the loss of another, but it is not true 
 that in livings, organic relationship the gain of one factor in social 
 life is effected at the expense of another. If one member of a fam- 
 ily gets rich, the other members do not necessarily get poor; they 
 get poor only if they live in fatal relationship and if one member 
 overreaches the other. 
 
 All life in nature is organic, and it all grows at the expense of 
 non-organic, non-vital conditions of existence. Organic life 
 brings non-organic substance into organic relationship and ele- 
 vates it step by step upward in the ladder of evolution from lower 
 to higher stages of organization. The more highly organized 
 states of existence naturally live at the expense of the less highly 
 organized. The lower organism prepares its substance as nourish- 
 ment for the higher. The human organism naturally lives upon 
 the animal and vegetable organism, but in the nature of things 
 it is not at all necessary that one human organism prey upon an- 
 other. On the contrary, men come together with a natural spirit 
 of good-will toward each other, to organize family and state, to 
 work for each other in accordance with reciprocal principles. As 
 long as the good-will prevails, so long is family and social life 
 prompted by a healthy stimulus, and so long" is the gain of any 
 one member of family and state a benefit to any and all other 
 members, b}^ reason of reciprocal interaction. But when the g^ood- 
 will which brought men together in famil}^ clan and state, 
 gives way to dissention, ill-will and hatefulness, as it does 
 when relative truth is the active force in intellectual development, 
 then each individual in famih^ and state tries to overreach the 
 other or live at the expense of the other. Thus the fabric of organic 
 or fatal relationship rests upon natural good-will or educationally 
 disseminated ill-will. If education sustains the gregarious nature 
 and natural good-will in human nature, then family and state grow 
 into social and organic relationship, and then honest truth becomes 
 a circulating: mediimi in civilization, and onlv honest standards 
 
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of truth, virtue, justice and finance can find recognition. But when 
 so-called education disseminates relative truth and confines itself 
 to statical considerations of life and to depict non-vital, non-or- 
 ganic conditions of existence, as does modern learning in school, 
 church and literature, then it makes the human mind see only 
 dangers of overreaching and of fatal relationship, and thereby 
 generates ill-will, with all its fatal consequences upon civilization. 
 
 The virtue of education, then, lies in its ability to make the 
 public mind see the organizing causes in nature, thought and civi- 
 lization, not from any special point of view, but from a 
 self - conscious point which can harmonize and unify all 
 human judgments and ■ opinions. To bring education to 
 that perfection rec[uires genius. It requires a power of 
 mind which can evolve evangelically the elementary knowing and 
 doing powers and bring' them into accord or harmony with the 
 apostolically developed knowing and doing powers. 
 
 The harmonizing in the development and evolution of the 
 inner and outer knowing and doing powers, of inspira- 
 tional and of acquired consciousness, would not present 
 much difficulty were it not for two facts : first, that 
 the alphabetical development serves in one way well and 
 in another way badly; and seconly, that the mind con- 
 trolled by opinions, as are all modern ftiinds, is never willing to 
 have its opinions corrected. To illustrate: Tell the Labor-Union 
 man that he can do better in the way of peace than in the way of 
 war; that he can better his conditions without striking and throw- 
 ing bricks, simply by organizing on the basis of good-will, making 
 friends by working for organic relationship of labor and capital 
 and making the dollar honestly representative of a day's work, 
 and he will probably respond: "Oh! nonsense! I can't gain any- 
 thing unless I take it from my neighbor. I must fight capital 
 wherever I see it, domestic first; foreign later, if necessary." The 
 working man's mind has been developed to understand only the 
 fighting basis, and from that basis it judges all facts. So also 
 with capital, and so with our educators. The relatively honest 
 use of money suits the capitalist ; relative truth pleases the edu- 
 cator, who has learned many thousand words contained in dic- 
 tionaries, which make so-called historic knowledge the basis of 
 definition. He cannot realize that these dictionary definitions are 
 of the classifying and categorical kind, which exclude all natural 
 knowledge of cause and consequence. He says: "By these defi- 
 nitions I make my living and by these definitions I shine. I know 
 as much as anybody and I do'nt want to know any more. My 
 opinions and theories are all statements of fact, which cannot be 
 perfected. Anj^body who finds fault with my opinions and the- 
 
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ories is visionary." It is this state of mind which Scriptural 
 writers termed Satanic, time-defying; because it persists in error; 
 it resists the changeful requirements of life. 
 
 No one individual can well hope to overcome the difficulties 
 of making honest truth and honest money circulating mediums 
 in civilization. The success in this matter which has been ac- 
 credited to individuals during the past ages has usually been that 
 of a concentrated organic effort to which an individual name has 
 been given. 
 
 This is an industrial stage of social development. The greatest 
 of industrial achievements has been the formation of trusts. 
 Trusts, if formed according to organically reciprocal principles, 
 could immensely improve the conditions of the burden-bearers 
 in civilization. They could rid national civilization of bureau- 
 cratic, political and financial parasites; they could feed, clothe 
 and house the world on trul}^ economic principles; they could do 
 away with that undue poverty which is the cause of much demora- 
 lization; the}' could check the aggressive policy of labor-unions 
 and the criminal tendencies in their ranks; they could give 
 modern civilization its greatest of all needs, a "sewer-system", 
 to eliminate the intellectual, moral and social offal. 
 
 The leaders of industrial development and the heads of the 
 trust-system, however, cannot proceed in accordance with organic- 
 ally reciprocal principles until these principles are made clear to 
 them by ways and means of education. They have to work, as 
 has everybody else, financiers, politicians, educators, etc., by the 
 lights placed before them, and while these lights are only the lamp- 
 lights or torch-lights of opinions, as antic|uity put it, they will not 
 be able to accomplish anything in the way of right-doing or of 
 evolving good-will in the human mind. 
 
 The modern way of thinking, by means of dictionary terms, 
 the way which education prepares and approves as the only way, 
 leads the people to believe that there is no truth in life save that 
 of word-vested thought, by learning formulated, and that there 
 is nothing worth working for save the possession of the "almighty 
 dollar"; that deadly competition and strife are essentials to de- 
 velop fitness of survival; that the fittest survivor is he who over- 
 reaches and overpowers his fellow-men ; that nothing makes life 
 worth living but money, and power to impose hardships upon 
 humanity. This way of thinking establishes conditions of fatal 
 relationship in social lif-e, which generate ill-will and make it im- 
 possible for good-will to come to the front and assert itself as 
 a civilizing power without having its motives misconstrued and 
 disparaged. That which makes life actually worth living is not 
 
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the possession of the dollar alone, but it is mainly the self-con- 
 sciousness of good-will toward men and the enjoyment of appre- 
 ciative response from the world to the individual. It is this re- 
 sponse which makes giving a greater pleasure than receivings but 
 while intellectual endeavor is generating and spreading ill-will at 
 large, it forces good-will to stay at home. 
 
 Truth in the way of modern thoug"ht is very unlike truth in 
 the way of life. There is much ability to know and to do in the 
 human mind which thought, vested in dictionary definitions, can 
 never fairly come to represent, even if the learned etymologists 
 and philologists make dictionaries by the yard, miles in length. 
 
 If education does not make life shed its own self-conscious 
 light into the ways of thinking, thought will lead the human doing 
 powers into errors, suffering and destructive strife. Give the pub- 
 lic mind true lights of living consciousness, and it will do good 
 organic work. It will convert the gregarious nature of man into 
 intellectualized good-will. Give the world opinionated lights, as 
 does modern learning, and intellectualized individuality will live, 
 according- to the class-notions of truth, virtue and justice, in cate- 
 gorical pigeon-holes, like weaving spiders, 
 
 "Down through the ages spinning 
 The thread of mortal woes." 
 
 The foregoing pages suggest the need of something like a 
 "Curia"", or organization of right-minded and characterful people 
 to look after national interests from other than a partisan point 
 of view, and in a more eft'ectual way than the remnants of a medie- 
 val aristocracy succeed in doing under the established monarchial 
 forms of government. An adjudicative power, superior to written 
 laws and mere opinion, is a necessity in great national develop- 
 ment, as well as an approximately standard policy of administra- 
 tion, which cannot be disturbed or overthrown by political party- 
 pullers. 
 
 The author, having given much time and thought to the un- 
 trodden field of original knowing powers, feels convinced that 
 the best of human judgment is not necessarily only a matter of 
 opinion, based on theories and doctrines, scientific or theological, 
 but that a thorough knowledge of natural causes may be evolved 
 by employing more efficient ways and means of thought and lan- 
 guage than those which develop the modern intellect. He hopes 
 to be able to throw some light upon little known facts and especially 
 upon the errors and shortcomings in modern learning and methods 
 of education, which produce and scatter popular delusions. 
 
 Only a more thorough knowledge of causes active in the pro- 
 
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cess of living; thinking and civilizing, than the present systems 
 of scientific or theological education instil into the public mind, 
 can lead to satisfactory results in intellectual endeavors and in the 
 exchange of opinions regarding questions of the hour. It is this 
 needed knowledge of causes to which the author promises to con- 
 tribute much which is not easily accessible to the reading public. 
 If his suggestion to organize a patriotic Curia meets with decided 
 response anywhere, he will furnish in future publications full ex- 
 planations of any and all of the assertions and suggestions con- 
 tained in the above pages, and he may perhaps add some exposi- 
 tions of fact which never should go into public print, for the rea- 
 son that the existing evils and wrongs are rather the products of 
 faulty systems than of the men operating under them, and that any 
 expositions of fact which must draw attention to the acts of any 
 particular individuals may lead to unjust conclusions. He has 
 no ambition for individual advancement, and it is solely in the hope 
 of improving the conditions in social life that he holds himself in 
 readiness to respond to earnest inquiries on the part of organized 
 endeavor, but not to mere individual curiosity. He believes that 
 individual eiifort can accomplish little or nothing to check the pro- 
 gress of erring and wasteful systems. If the above sketchy expo- 
 sition of facts does not create more than an occasional individual 
 interest, then practical results in the political life of the nation 
 cannot be speedily expected from the movement which he expects 
 to set on foot, and further elaboration of the subject will have to 
 step slowly with the times. 
 
 If the thoughtful people of the United States, especially the 
 younger generation, will not organize for the advancement of Light 
 and Right, then the healthful middle classes may some early day 
 find themselves in the unhappy position of grist placed between 
 the upper and nether mill-stones — between the bureaucratic op- 
 pressions instigated by foreign financial systems and the grind of 
 domestic labor-organizations. 
 
 If the present school, college and journalistic education con- 
 tinues to sow the seeds of contradictory opinions and of consequent 
 ill-will in the public mind, if party-pulling politicians continue in 
 their present irrational course of multiplying special laws to suit 
 popular delusions, then we are liable to have Camorra-organiza- 
 tions of professional criminals in and out of politics, which may 
 make social life decidedly unpleasant and insecure. 
 
 General correspondence may be ad- And correspondence regarding- the 
 
 dressed to " proposed organization to 
 
 "ST. GEORGE" G. H, iVTALTBR, 
 
 Care Paul Elder & Co. Maltermoro, 
 
 Publishers. Fresno County, California. 
 
 San Francisco, California. 
 
 XCVIII 
 
THE CATEGORIZER 
 
 Aa Ancient Design from Hoernes' Urgeschichte der Kunst 
 
 The design is one of many denoting intellectual perversion, consequent to alpha- 
 betical and categorical instruction, which destroys the natural knowing powers of the 
 mind and human character. It is not exactly a caricature but rather a character 
 study depicting the intellectualized mind as a walking storehouse of ready-made 
 ideas, fixed opinions and persistent prejudices. 
 
 The square rump represents the intellectual tool chest and the little squares 
 in it denote categorical pigeon holes in the usual way in which so-called sacred art 
 of antiquity depicted the subject. The head denotes the intellectualized mind; the 
 one eye, the sight of conceptive thought; the beak, the unnatural talking talent; 
 the feathers on the head represent the unnatural "lines of thought", that is, visionary 
 ideality and perverted intellectuality. The misshapen legs illustrate the stationery, 
 unnatural kind of understanding of natural causation, produced by categorical con- 
 ceptions of fact; the one arm denotes the one-sided doing power, of intellectuals 
 who have been enlightened by single active catgorical thought. The upturned pyra- 
 mid under the rump depicts the intellectually perverted thinking powers as propoga- 
 tors of opinions. 
 
 The design refers to both methods of abstract thinking, that of syllogizing and 
 that of cypselizing, which corrupt natural intelligence. Both methods are still prac; 
 ticed in our daily life. Syllogizing is now known as logic. Cypselizing has no modern 
 name; it is the purposive way of thinking and of converting ideas into moral determi- 
 nents. A further explanation of the picture is given under the chapter on "Logic" .in 
 
 a j'et .unpublished volume. . _ . . .. . ... 
 
 I. 
 
The old-time arguments for and against the natural way of knowing and the 
 acquired categorical way of thinking may be summed up as follows; if supplemented 
 to suit modern life; 
 
 First: The deductive and inductive reasoning is not reasoning at all, for it 
 is not an intellectual procedure which can deal with the active causes and consequences. 
 It Is only a method of preparing categorical ideas in a general or particular way; 
 and in fact, it is either reiteration of the premises or it is jumping at conclusions not 
 contained in the premises. 
 
 Second; No scientifically established law of nature represents natural causes fairly, 
 all are products of irrational guesswork; all are theories which do not elusidate the 
 active causes in the process of existence. 
 
 Third: Knowing nature by ideas of matter, power, time, space, motion, is like 
 knowing it by God and devil ideas, by ghost and spook ideas; but it is not 
 knowing nature as it should be known. Nature should and can be known by the 
 very causes of its mobility and motivity; the causes of development and evolution 
 are knowable; they rise primarily and immediately in living consciousness and self- 
 consciousness and they can be elucidated and made explicitly known by proper 
 mental analysis — by proper use of thought and language. If the special powers of 
 perception, sight, hearing, touch, etc., are considered the only sources of knowledge, 
 then thought can only produce a knowledge of the outer, phaenominal forms, and of 
 the inter-action of these forms, and such knowledge is insufficient for the higher pur- 
 poses of civilized life. 
 
 Fourth: Learning which looks upon special faculties of perception as the only 
 sources of knowledge divests itself of its natural understanding of cause and consequence, 
 hence it cannot logically deal with facts. 
 
 Fifth: The Prakrit types of rhetoric can only serve to make Nature known in 
 a categorical and historical way; the Sanskrit types can make it known as it is in its 
 own inner activity. 
 
 Sixth: Nature should be made explicibly known to civilized life in both the 
 natural and acquired way, and both ways should be unified into one compound of 
 knowledge and brought under the control of fully evolved free agency determining 
 powers. 
 
 Seventh: The very causes of development and evolution in the process of 
 nature being knowable, there is no reason why opinions formed without such knowl- 
 edge should rule civilized life. Opinions so formed are of unnatural ignorance born, 
 and such ignorance should not be permitted to make laws for the guidance of human 
 conduct. 
 
 Degenerate and suffering types of civilizations have often struggled against the 
 dominance of categorical ideas. Many arguments and thousands of vestiges of works 
 of art remain to illustrate the struggle. The everlasting conflict between natural 
 fact-knowers and learned word-knowers, between practical minds and theoretical 
 minds, between right minded people and systemitizing liars has always resulted in 
 Ihe imdoing of natural knowing powers and in the elevation of acquired and artificial 
 thinking powers; it has always resulted in the elevation of the letter of opinion-made 
 laws above the self-conscious spirit of justice; and this elevation has always des- 
 troyed the natural tendencies of good-will and the sense of Justice in Lhc people, and 
 \\ith It their oivilijing power. 
 
 In ancient Greece the 'lar between Hennas and lerms resulted in the death 
 sentence of Socrates, and yet Plato and Aristotle and other categorizers and sophists 
 rose to delude civilization with hollow word-knowledge. 
 
 In ancient Rome the right minded thinkers struggled in vain against the letter- 
 of-the-law system which ruined that civilization. 
 
 Cliristiaiiity grew into poVer during Roman degeneracy, but even during the 
 
 II. 
 
early part of its growth the Neo-platonists and other categorizers came to infest it 
 with word-knowledge, bringing fatal confusion of ideas by way of categorical quib- 
 bling into the new cult. 
 
 During the middle ages Christianity became so thoroughly deluded by word- 
 knowledge that it made saints of such categorizers as Thomas a'Aquinas. 
 
 At present in our civilization the hollow talk of so-called scientists and of intel- 
 lectualized politicians again come to the fore to destroy the healthful growth of this 
 commonwealth. 
 
 Word-knowers are always wishful to shine as sages. Loud mouthed politicians 
 aim to perpetuate themselves in power by ventilating their word-knowledge before a 
 deluded gallery whose votes they aim to catcu in support of their side-pulling regime. 
 
 It is always the same kind of deception which destroys the reasoning powers 
 of the people and brings ruin to civilization; it is always a substitution of word- 
 knowledge for knowledge of natural causation — a substitution of fragmentary one- 
 sided and delusive aspects and conceptions of appearance for Facts. 
 
 The mathematic astronomer talks of laws of nature as if he knew all the causes 
 active in the siderial process, when, in fact, he does not even know the rudiments 
 of what he ought to know, and what pre-historic antiquity knew about the subject. 
 The people take in the learned talk and believe the talker is a prodigious fact-knower. 
 
 The intellectualized politician talks of economic subjects as if he knew enough 
 to improve the industrial and political systems in all its roofings and branches, but 
 all he knows can only disturb the channels of trade and destroy civic rights and 
 prosperity of his fellow men; and all he does is to open the way to the public crib 
 to an ever increasing number of bureaucratic parasites. He talks of preserving the 
 people's rights while he legislates them away, laboring mainly to delude voters and 
 to sustain his party regime. 
 
 Trashy education produces trashy opinions and prepares the public mind for 
 submission and support of the systematic rule of wrong, which opinionated minds 
 always labor to establish for their own glory and aggrandizement and with the result 
 of destroying peace and prosperity. So it has been throughout historic ages and so 
 it will be again in modern civilization if the business of disseminating irrational 
 opinion is not brought to an end. 
 
 GOVERNMENT BY OPINION 
 
 An Etruscan design represents the intellectually deranged will power as govern- 
 ing society; it refers to the text in page 74. Many similar designs, some far more 
 impressive than the one here produced will be forthcoming presently. 
 
 III. 
 
THE DOCTRINE Of THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST 
 
 From an Etruscan Point of View 
 
 It represents tlie results of the educational dissemination of relative truths, 
 namely, the generation of folly, greed, ill-will, envy anrt hatefulness in civilized life. 
 
 The "faunic" genii of fatal relationship are shown as confronting each other and 
 as aiming to overreach each other, their nature being demonized and' brutalized by 
 unnatural ignorance of the organizing powers in life, ignorance produced in the un- 
 natural way of thinking. 
 
 Trashy education so deludes the public mind that it cannot see any way of 
 prosperity except by overreaching fellow constituents in family and State. 
 
 GOVERNMENT BY HOLLOW TALK OF POLITICAL PERVERTS 
 
 The Talking Lions of Fatal Relationship from ancient Eturia, held in check by 
 the deep-seated power of intellectual persersion which governs the land. 
 
 The central figure is notaMiedusa, as archeologists usually call it. It personifies 
 an earlier type of systematic perversion of mentality produced by undesplained talk- 
 ing talent. (Note the protruding tongue.) 
 
 Medusa personifies the confusion of ideas consequent to the failure of distin- 
 guishing natural "Lines of Thought" from "Artificial Lines of Learning." 
 
 IV.' 
 

 THE WAR OF WORDS FOR OPINION'S SAKE 
 
 The Talking Lions of Fatal Relationship from an Assyrian monument represent 
 the government by side-pulling party talk which proceeds without free agency power 
 or any other adjudicative and organizing power of central unification and determina- 
 tion This design, like many others, is but fragments of a great educational system. 
 The entire system must be explained before the details can be made properly intelli- 
 gible. Further explanation of it will be found in the stories of Izdubar in the "God 
 Sham of Antiquity" about to be published. 
 
 PROMPTED BY FOLLY AND GREED 
 
 LEGISLATIVE AND POLITICAL SPOLIATION 
 
 Legislative spoliation is not a new feature in civilization. Systematizing thought 
 which ignores the organizing principles has often usurped the law making power and 
 proceeded aggressively in special and counteractive ways against the best interests of 
 the people. .^ .,^4^ 
 
 The Sherman law is by no means a novelty in the aggressive use of legislative 
 and political power. This use is here as often elsewhere represented by the Fatal 
 Relationship-lions besetting civilization which appears represented by a single indi- 
 vidual. The mythical lion of Fatal Relationship appears as playing a widely varying 
 part in the incongraphy of ancient cults; but never a happy one. 
 
 The aggressive use of political and legislative power affects the entire civiliza- 
 tion even if only directed against one faction or even one single individual at a time. 
 Civilization hangs together nationally no matter how badly or primitively organized. 
 Aggressive legislation which today attacts only the capitalist whose money is invested 
 in industrial enterprises also attacks the iijterests of the labor employed, a fact which 
 the labor unions will some day realize when their fighting and striking methods come 
 to be turned against other than individual and domestic capital. 
 
 V. 
 
Any nation which iDermits its political and legislative functionaries to depart 
 from scriptually formulative restrictive principles so far as to pursue an aggressive 
 policy will learn that the wage of folly is suffering. : 
 
 The worst enemies of civilization are aggressions of legislatvie and political 
 functionaries. They proceed under the claim of most exalted, if not divine, right to 
 impose hardship upon the people whom they should serve and whose endorsement they 
 secure by systematized lying and ~by otherwise scattering popular delusions. 
 
 This method of securing the consent of the people to parasite invasion and 
 organic destruction Is old and time accursed. 
 
 The powers of life which cause the organic growth of national civilization have 
 always given way to parasite invasion and destruction in historic times. Nature builds 
 and artifice kills the social body ' organc. The living civilizations have become so 
 used to parasitic invasion and control that they seem to consder national infestment 
 a natural state of affairs. When Free Agency Knowledge Power and Character are 
 lacking, as they always have been in historic civilization, the social constituents find 
 some kind of slavery quite acceptible. 
 
 To make life worth living, good-will must sustain the knowing and doing 
 powers. Good-will should be educationally cultivated and industrially and politically 
 sustained by establishment of fair social conditions. 
 
 Individual and public welfare is the result of united efforts in organizing endea- 
 vor and not of counter-active' struggle. 
 
 Peace and Prosperity are secured by harmonious special endeavors in accordance 
 with organizing principles and these principles imply reciprocal interaction, not only 
 between individual workers and organized enterprises but also between these enter- 
 prises and the commonwealth inclusive of the governing powers. All have some right 
 to share in the benefits of natural growths. 
 
 Equitable distribution of right and duties is the bases of internal peace. No 
 government has any right to legislate away the individual freedom of conduct as iong 
 as this conduct is not dangerous or harmful to other individuals or to the State at 
 large, and being so harmful or dangerous should not be a matter of any body's opinion; 
 it should be the matter of Fast and of gisty judgment regarding Fact — regarding con- 
 ditions and the causes productive of conditions. 
 
 The organizing causes active in life, mind and society, the causes which sus- 
 tain individual and social welfare and organic relationship being knowable, no opinion 
 formed without knowledge of these causes has a right to officiate as a life controlling 
 power in civilization. 
 
 The letter of the law must not be based upon anybody's opinion but upon gisty 
 knowledge of Fact, and it should, not be administered, save by a characterful free 
 agent, who can distinguish between Facts which are acts of nautre, pure and simple, 
 and theories or opinions regarding facts which are only pretentious products of the 
 way of thinking. 
 
 The modern mind, intellectually enlightened, has lost much of its natural powers 
 to distinguish between acts of life and acts of thought — between Facts which are 
 acts of nature or of human nature and between facts which are only theories and 
 opinions. . 
 
 The mental powers to make this distinction are in part ignored by modern edu- 
 cation. The natural knowing powers are left undeveloped by thought and language 
 as used in school, church and even social life and no living criterion of certitude is 
 being fully evolved and hence no free agency power. 
 
 Modern learning recognizes no criterion of truth which is not purely a product in 
 the conventional way of thinking, and hence the public mind is left not only without 
 intrinsic and explicit knowledge of Fact but also without any living self-conscious 
 criterion of certitude. 
 
 VI. 
 
The assertion that the trust system is harmful to civilization is a theory as for- 
 merly was the assertion that the introduction of machinery was dangerous and harm- 
 ful — sewing machines would diminish the chances of women to find employment, etc., 
 etc. 
 
 Trusts can never be dangerous or harmful if organic principles prevail. Every 
 great movement in civilization is dangerous if not actively harmful when the organizing 
 principles do not prevail. The formation of every State within the State is dangerous. 
 For instance, labor unions are dangerous; they go on strikes; they interfere Wi a 
 trade; they throw bricks, etc., yet if these labor unions should become embodied in 
 the trust system on reciprocal principles and on profit-sharing basis with the State 
 they would necessarily become a peaceful organization and great benefit to civiliza- 
 tion. The growth of the bureaucratic system is not only a danger but certainly harm- 
 ful to national welfare, if the political office men and public servants usurp controling 
 power of industrial enterprises and of feeding the millions; but if organizing princi- 
 ples prevail to hold political flunkies in their place, then their work is an essential 
 factor in public business. 
 
 The problem of States within the State is very largely illuciated in old-time works 
 of thought and especially vestiges sacerdotal art. 
 
 The practice of basing lows upon theories and enforcing them rigorously is al- 
 ways harmful, in fact, is pernicious. 
 
 The theorists and word-knowers should be forced out of the law-making business 
 and the swarms of bureaucratic parasites should be made to earn an honest living. 
 Common sense and Native Reason should assert themselves and lay intellectualized 
 ignorance on the shelf. 
 
 It is absurd to send a man to the penitentiary because he violates a law based 
 on a theory — on an opinion-made law. 
 
 The present law craze in this country shows the lack of proper mental training 
 in the public mind. The Sherman law and its application is an evidence of deplorable 
 incompetency in congressional and judicial talent. 
 
 Incompetency in educational endeavors underlies the incompetency in legislative, 
 political and administrative work. No modern educator knows the difference between 
 fact and theories as thoroughly as it should be known to every voter in a republican 
 form of government. 
 
 In order to distinguish facts from theory clearly in all cases the thinking mind 
 must be able to make an analysis of its own consciousness; at least, it must be able 
 to distinguish the living consciousness from the thinking consciousness — the workings 
 of common sense, native reason and self-consciousness from the word-vested ideas 
 which pretend to represent them — natural intelligence from acquired intellectuality — 
 gisty judgments from opinions, etc., etc. 
 
 Modern learning does not and probably cannot analyze the compound of conscious- 
 ness in accordance with its constituent factors; and because it does not do this it 
 remains unnaturally ignorant of Fact. 
 
 Our learned thinkers all know the words common sense, native reason, special 
 sense^ discerning and determining power, self-consciousness, etc., but they do not know 
 wlial these words can and do I'epresent in the workings of mental economy if pi-o- 
 perly defined. They do not know the proper way of defining words, they only know 
 ilie historical and categorical way which is found in modern dictionaries, from the 
 rie^ Os;ford edition down to the sclic".'! dlc^-ioii^ries. All the definitions contained 'li 
 dictionaries are of the tsrrMelogical and categorical hind; ths? are definitions based 
 or. historic observatians concerning s-jperficial aspects of ssijerience only; all are 
 products of artificial classification; none reach effectively into living consciousness. 
 
 Modern educators are to blame for the intellectual perversion of the age, for 
 the prevailing errors of thought, for the spread of popular delusion, for legislative and 
 judicial incompetency, and social disturbances. 
 
 VII. 
 
Modern civilization stiould be given open "sewerage" for tlie purpose of ridding 
 society of the intellectual perverts and their victims. It is absurd to legislate obstruc- 
 tions into the undercurrents of degeneracy. The redemption of invincible ignorance 
 is impossble; all attempts to elevate irredeemable degenerates are vain. To foster 
 degeneracy is hurtful; to give it authority and power to rule civilized life is perni- 
 cious. 
 
 To expound these assertions in detail by means of words is tiresome and unnec- 
 essary. Antiquity has done all necessary work on this subject thoroughly. The 
 resurrection of the original meanings of the vestiges of ancient art, the world's great 
 educator, can do more in a day than talk in dictionary terms can do in centuries. Let 
 us resurrect the work which evolved the civilizing instinct and free agency powers in 
 humanity. Organize society on organizing principles, regenerate good-will and make 
 thinking man a free agent, and nine-tenths of restrictive legislation will become useless 
 and the aggressive legislators will naturally go into the sewer. 
 
 The merging of labor unions and trusts into one properly constituted organiza- 
 tion will solve the economic problem and prove beneficial to everp helpful constituent 
 of society. It will establish economic peace in the social household. 
 
 The organization of a "curia" for the correction of educational errors and short- 
 comings and supervision of social affairs will put an end to political and legislative 
 corruption and a thousand other evils which are now growing wild. 
 
 VIII. 
 
ERRATA 
 
 Page 2. 9th line read; stuffed specimens of an animal. 
 
 Page 3. Paragraph left out, 6 lines from top. See end of 
 errata. 
 
 Page 8. 16th line from top. The sentence: "'Having served 
 their purpose they do not pass out of existence but" should be 
 struck out and the following sentence should be substituted : They 
 are tools of the mind and they should never be looked upon as 
 anything' else. They should be filed away in the categorical tool- 
 chest, but usually they are looked upon as standard representa- 
 tions of Fast, and thereby they 
 
 Page 9. 10th line from top after Fact read: it is guess work 
 
 Page 25. Top line after organization: Instead of "the)'" 
 read : most of them. 
 
 Page 29. 24th line from top. After credit system read: in 
 former ages had. 
 
 Page 31. 18th line from top: Substitute should for do. 
 
 Page 33. 11th line from top: Substitute originates for 
 exists. 
 
 Page 38. 14th line from bottom. Title left out : Language 
 as a Cause of Evolution — The Gift of Tongues. 
 
 Page 40. 5th line from bottom. Title left out : Language 
 as a Cause of Delusion — -The Confusion of Tongues. 
 
 Page 4 of illustrations read: for political perverts, read intel- 
 lectual perverts. 
 
 Page 5, supplement title lines to read : The AVar of AVords for 
 Opinion's Sake and Its Influence on Civilized Societv. 
 
 Page 5.. Transpose title lines to read: Legislative and Politi- 
 cal Spoliation, prompted by Folly and Greed. 
 
 The omitted paragraph on page 3. 
 
 Antiquity evolved two different types of language ; one for . 
 the evolution of the human understanding and the other for the 
 special thinking powers. The former was a truly organic type of 
 language ; the latter a gramatical type. If both types are not 
 used to develop the human knowing powers, then intellectual 
 development besomes one sided and exerts a delusive influence 
 upon civilized life ; it deceives the thinking mind as regards that 
 which is right and wrong in public life. 
 
 All historic civilizations have been subjected to the one-sided 
 influence of language and by reason of this influence they have 
 been brought to untimely destruction. 
 
 Only organic language can serve to evolve the powers of the 
 human understanding and produce a gisty knowledge of natural 
 causation. Grammatical types of language can onl}^ develop 
 special faculties of knowing; they can serve onlv to represent 
 
 (a ) 
 
and misrepresent natural causation by fragmentary conceptions, 
 superficial ideas and opinions. Organic language is needed to 
 evolve free agency powers qualified to use ideas or opinions as 
 intellectual tools wherewith to do their work of civilization. 
 
 The every-day languages spoken in the civilized world are 
 a mixture of organic and grammatical types of language, but in 
 that mixture there is but a very small percentage of organic char- 
 acter, and this small percentage is being steadily diminished by 
 S3'stems of instructions in logic and rhetoric and categorical classifi- 
 cation and manufacture of dictionary terms. Under our instruc- 
 tive system special knowledge increases but the natural under- 
 standing of cause and consequence vanishes. 
 
 Our educators do not understand the two ways in which 
 everyday language may and should be used; the Sancrit or 
 mental health-sustaining way and the Pankrit or categorically 
 explicit way. 
 
 The words Sankcrit and Prakrit are not here used to indicate 
 the language of ancient India; they are only used because they 
 are pointedly and tersely discriptive of the two ways in which 
 the human mind can use language, and our dictionaries have no 
 words to pointedly depict the two difl^erent ways of speaking. 
 
 The Sankcrit way is the so-called sacred or health-sustaining 
 use of language which evolve the living consciousness of natural 
 causation — the natural understanding — the mother conscious- 
 ness of the thinking consciousness; it gives the mind a healthful 
 foundation to insure the right and reasonable use of acquired and 
 explicit knowledge; it opens up the unlimited knowledge of the 
 world process. 
 
 The Prakrit way is the definite, but limited, historic use of 
 language which evolves the special faculties of the thinking con- 
 sciousness and makes that known which takes place in the work- 
 shop of single active thought and which is or can be embodied or 
 encased in the established definitions of the words used. 
 
 The former use of language deals with that which is univer- 
 sally and individually active in the very process of existence and . 
 which because of its changeful activity cannot be embodied or 
 encased in established or fixed definitions of words; and at that 
 activity it only hints by making" an impression upon living con- 
 sciousness, as do all glyphic or hermenentic types of language. 
 
 The latter everyday Prakrit use of language deals with pro- 
 ducts of thought which are actually contained in the meaning of 
 words. 
 
 To illustrate the two ways of using" language: the name 
 Jupiter in the so-called sacred use of language originally meant. 
 Father of Adjudicative Reason because this way of reasoning is 
 an organizing power of life and mind which actually exists in the 
 process of life back of language and which extends the principles 
 of procedure, creative of organic life in nature, into the endeavors 
 of social organization and civilization. This name so used is onl)^ 
 a hint at something beyond itself; it is an eponym for it hints at 
 
 (b) 
 
something which actually works at the process of existence and 
 its use produces a healthful effect upon the mind in as much as 
 it appeals to a living and active character power and draws the 
 attention of thoug'ht to the why and wherefore life proceeds as 
 it does in its way of intellectual and social evolution. 
 
 The name Jupiter thus represents an organizing power pro- 
 ceeding intellectually in accordance with creative and health-sus- 
 taining principles of life ; and not a mere statistical idea of a 
 stationary God. In its original significance it referred to a char- 
 acterful Doing-power and not to any special thinking or talking 
 talent; it was a character name generated according to the pro- 
 sopapaia-system of mythically personifying in powers active 
 in nature and human nature ; and it orig'inally belonged in the 
 sacred or Sankcrit- way of using language. Of course, it is not 
 a Brahmanic but a Latin name. 
 
 Quite different is the case of the word "Deus"; it has a fixed 
 stationary categorical meaning as has our word God ; it repre- 
 sents a word-born, (mythically called an ear-born) idea in this 
 or that definition encased ; and it does not in any immediately 
 kown way refer to the living organizing- power in the process of 
 nature. It signifies and represents only some product of thought 
 or some absentee God-idea, some intellecutal vision. 
 
 The absentee God-ideas only hold out delusive hopes and 
 delusive fears to superstitious folly, which never can or should 
 control civilization . 
 
 The free agency mind should know how the Gods or deified 
 powers of life and mind proceed in order to proceed accordingly. 
 
 Ignorance of the two-old use of language and of the proso- 
 papaia system substituted the hollow term "Deus" for the char- 
 acter name of Jupiter or a definite categorcial idea for the indefi- 
 nitely descriptive name of a personified and actually living power. 
 
 Absentee God-ideas do not properly depict the powers which 
 create life and do the civilizing work. That which does the civi- 
 lizing work is that power of life or mind which both intellectually 
 and practically proceeds in accordance with those organizing prin- 
 ciples which create and sustain the order of life; and that power 
 is active in man, if he is actually a free agent and not onlj^ a vision- 
 ary thinker or victim of thought-born delusions. The human 
 judging and reasoning, the free agency discerning and doing 
 powers animated and inspired by the living principles of creation 
 built up civilization and not absentee God-ideas nor theories or 
 opinions regarding them; they only delude the God-conscious- 
 ness of the humari mind and tear down its living work. 
 
 In the original of our bible-work, the organizing principles of 
 precedure are not called God, nor Jehovah, but the}' are given char- 
 acter-names and when fully evolved in the free agency mind they 
 are represented by the letters J. H. V. H. 
 
 The word wise but unnaturally ignorant translators substi- 
 tuted the word God for any and all of the character names and 
 designations which appeared in the original text, even for the 
 
 (c) 
 
letters J. H. V. H. This substitution of terms for character names 
 destroys the original meaning of the sacred writings or other 
 healthful products of thought and makes profane history of 
 foolish fairy tales out of the original formulas designed for the 
 p-uidance of common sense, native reason, thought and other 
 mental constituents of the free agency doing-power. The modern 
 word-knower may know all about the meaning of these words 
 according to the definitions given in dictionaries, but he does not 
 know what is back of these definitions in living powers; nor does 
 he know that the words may be so used as to reach beyond the 
 definitions into the living" powers; he does not know common 
 sense, Native Reason or other Free Ag'ency powers as they are 
 in themselves , nor what they are capable of doing in the mental 
 economy and in the civilizing process. The intellectualized word- 
 knowers cannot look through the verbal vail into the process of 
 nature; this vail is impenetrable to them; their natural intelli- 
 gence having been destroyed by wordy perversion of the intellect, 
 they cannot see that the best use of language is only a hint at 
 existing facts. The alphabetically intellectualized mind, which 
 ignores the glyphic use of language cannot see or understand the 
 actual workings of the powers of life or the very causes which 
 create and sustain or disturb and destroy the order of life in indivi- 
 dual and nation, and hence it cannot reason from cause to conse- 
 quence, nor determine the Good or Evil in the influence of thought 
 and language upon civilization. 
 
 And again the thinker enlightened by dictionar}' words can 
 only know that part of living consciousness which has been ana- 
 lized by thought and converted into explicit word knowledge ; 
 and that part, at the present stage of mental developement, is but 
 a small fraction of that which is implicitly given in original know- 
 ing powers. 
 
 Dictionary definitions refer only to the work of single active 
 thought, and they can never fully and fairly represent the double 
 activity of natural causation. The intellect by dictionary words 
 developed is never more than half developed, it remains half-en- 
 lightened — "half-baked" — half-witted ; it never can come to 
 distinguish Right from Wrongs, Good from Evil; it must always 
 remain an inorganic thing, a conglomerate of opinion. All these 
 facts here hinted at, or for the sake of brevity rather dogmatically 
 stated, should have been fully elaborated and made known to 
 leaders of civilized life and to voters in a republic, so that they 
 may not allow themselves to be deceived and misled by the word 
 wisdom of "half-baked" intellectuals. 
 
 The mythical phrase "half-baked" refers to ideas not properly 
 prepared as healthful food for the mind. 
 
 Language deceives the judging and reasoning powers if it is 
 not properly used. 
 
 Improper use of language converts the "gift of tongues" which 
 makes civilization possible into the "confusion of tongues" which 
 destroys civilization. 
 
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