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 alone. The Germans call the sun feminine and the moon masculine, and this definition of their sex she thought, was more in accordance with theoretical fitness than ours. The idea around which the whole result and manifestation of the universe resolves is central and feminine. Our social organization was the work of harmonizing polarities which adjust activities and increase a compatibility of all liberties. The problem of this great work had to be slowly worked out and verified until it reached that point where individual action became possible and consequently necessary.

"This point, and others immediately suggested by it, were then discussed at considerable length by the speaker. She also considered the relation of the idea of polarity to government, saying that a republic sprang from a circumstance, and exceptional and momentary recognition of the great polarities whose action was represented in the words 'truth' and 'justice.' It comes of the belief that the supreme right, which is the form of the supreme good, can govern in the persons of all with better realization than in the will of one or of several. It is a recognition by the whole community of the ideal standard to attribution, and of function to the primary motive power. But the ideal can only be embodied in extension. This involves time, and time involves new channels, and all men who have not thus enjoyed this direct illumination have more or less the human lessons to learn which must precede as a condition that extended view. The moral and social capital of mankind changes hands as well as does monetary capital. This was because humanity was essentially one. The ocean of being, like the great world-sea, has its variation of shores and currents, of limit and power; but it admits in its nature no such phenomena as isolation or permanence. The speaker then concluded her address with a beautiful apostrophe upon the golden voyages which Truth was ever making upon this sea, and the good results proceeding from the continued exchange of her heavenly commodities for those native to the soil of the various climes she visits."

Since this book was written I find that the views I have expressed, relative to the physical basis of life, are being accepted by the loftiest minds, and that my theory that all life, mental and physical, every act in fine, are but so many chemical changes