part in the government of the world. He will not do this,

of course, by the concentration of faculties on the pheno- mena of this one facet of many-sided Nature that we call the physical plane. However ardent and intelligent that concentration may be, such an exercise of faculty can develop but one of the many potentialities of development which lurk in the nature of the Man who must be more than what we habitually mean by the phrase a man of science, before he can win a place in the Divine kingdom. Knowledge itself of the kind we chiefly deal with in this life, may be a splendid stimulant to spiritual evolution, out a diet consisting of stimulant entirely is not conducive to health. We must study other laws of Nature besides those that have to do with physics before we can utilise and control the forces of the spiritual plane. Man does
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not live by bread alone; the soul is not exalted by know- ledge alone (in the sense in which knowledge is limited to the same natural plane as the bread). The man of science who would claim the inheritance that Nature has provided for him must appreciate her design before he can be appointed to assist in working it out, and must assimilate his aspirations to the spirit in which that design is conceived. When he has done this, though not till then, the Elder Brethren of humanity will be ready to receive him into their midst.