efore man's eyes. Disobeying the law of fire man is
burned; disobeying the law of steam man is scalded; disobeying the law
of honor friends avert their faces, or the door of the jail closes
behind the wrongdoer. So few are these laws and so simple that they
could not be plainer were they emblazoned upon the sky as an
ever-present scroll. There is the law of reverence. Conscious of
vastness and sublimity, in the presence of mountains, man, frail,
ignorant, passing swiftly to his grave, is asked to bow his head in the
presence of the Eternal One.

There is also the law of truth in speech, the law of purity in thought,
the laws that forbid theft and covetousness and killing. But all these
laws are gathered up and fulfilled in love, just as the seven colors of
nature are gathered up and fulfilled in the one white sunbeam. And he
who loves will fulfill all these laws. Loving himself, man will not
waste his physical treasure. As it was vandalism for the iconoclasts
to pass through the cathedrals of Europe whitewashing the frescoes and
breaking down the statues, much more is it vandalism for men to destroy
that temple of God called the body. If man loves his mind he will,
through culture, lead what is germinal and latent forth into full
blossom and fruitage. He who loves scholarship will make haste to
double the books in his library. He who loves sweetness will double
the sweetness of his melody. He who loves friends will double their
number and strengthen their affection. He who loves industry will
strengthen his toil and lend it influence. Looking toward the home,
love fulfills the law of helpfulness. Looking toward the weak and
poor, love fulfills the law of service and sympathy. Looking toward a
great crisis for humanity, love fulfills the law of martyrdom.

Just as summer fulfills all ripeness and growth for seed and root and
tree, so love fulfills all laws for self and man and the all-loving God.

After thirty-six years of tireless toil Herbert Spencer has brought to
a conclusion the labors of a lifetime. His final volume places the
capstone on the structure of his philosophy. In reading these pages no
thoughtful mind can fail to perceive that for science also has dawned
the vision splendid. If history began with an era of force, its last
and crowning achievement will be the era when love, organized into laws
and institutions, will lend perfection to civilization. The upward
march of mankind has bee