perience. There is no hurry; but the law is sure. Working with the
law, man evolves swiftly with happiness; working against it, he evolves
slowly with pain. In either case, he evolves, advancing joyously as a
free man, or scourged onwards as a slave. The most obstinate fool in
life's class, refusing to learn, fortunately dies and cannot quite
escape after death the knowledge of his folly.

Let the reader try for himself the solution of moral problems,
accepting, as a hypothesis, the facts of evolution and of the two halves
of its huge spiral, and see for himself if this view does not offer a
rational, intelligible, practical meaning to the much-vexed words, Right
and Wrong. Let him see how it embraces all that is true in the other
bases suggested, is their summation, and rationalises their precepts.
He will find that Morality is no longer dependent on the maxims of great
Teachers--though indeed they proclaimed its changeless laws--nor on the
imperfect resultant of individual experiences, nor on the happiness of
some only of the great human family, but that it inheres in the very
nature of things, an essential law of happy life and ordered progress.
Then indeed is Morality founded on a basis that cannot be moved; then
indeed can it speak with an imperial authority the "ought" that must
be obeyed; then it unfolds its beauty as humanity evolves to its
perfecting, and leads to Bliss Eternal, the Brahman Bliss, where the
human will, in fullest freedom, accords itself in harmony with the
divine.

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V

MYSTICISM

Mysticism cannot be spoken of as a basis of morality in the sense in
which Revelation, Intuition, Utility and Evolution are bases, for it is
valid only for the individual, not for everybody, for the true Mystic,
the dictates of the Outer or Inner God are imperial, compelling, but to
any one else they are entirely unauthoritative. None the less, as the
influence of the Mystic is wide-reaching, and his dicta are accepted by
many as a trustworthy revelation--are not all revelations communicated
by Mystics?--or as the intuition of an illuminated conscience, or as
showing the highest utility, or as the result of an evolution higher
than the normal, it is worth while to consider their value.

Mysticism is the realisation of God, of the Universal Self. It is
attained either as a realisation of God outside the Mystic, or within
himself. In the first case, it is usually re