| DURING the
Stone Age, when our ancestors lived in caves, ate raw meat and killed each
other with clubs, there was no need of a patent office. They may now
and then found new ways of torturing their enemies, but they did not apply
for patents.
As the world advanced in knowledge, and as the Sermon on the Mount took
hold of man, art and music, inspired by religious enthusiasm, made great
strides. The people of the world found new uses for force and
applied them. They found the power of wedges and levers and invented
printing and gunpowder, but as Charity and the Brotherhood of Man began to
fill the earth, and man began to understand
Blessed
are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
how differently
their minds acted. Instead of merely using power, they commenced to
find out and use principle.
Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, the world had for 1,800
years practically stood still, but during that century the mind of man
reached higher and higher. The unseen was harnessed for the use of
man; steam, electricity, the telephone, the phonograph, wireless
telegraph, the flying machine all came. Why? Because man was
shaking off the fetters of the material and rising to greater heights,
taking dominion.
But never in the world could all these wonders have come, while might was
right. Only with the advent of the understanding that right was
might could these great inventions have been made.
Every time the mind of man is turned back by war talk or war preparation
to the force idea, the world is clouded and takes a step backward.
What the world manifests are the manifestations of the thoughts of the
people living in it. Material conditions only change as the thoughts
of man rise to higher planes. The more noble, the more loving and
kind man is, the more God (Good) will unfold for all the earth.
War preparation, war talk is like drawing a daub of black paint over a
giant masterpiece, and every time it is done the whole world must suffer
to get back to the advanced standpoint it previously occupied.
Sink every Dreadnought, break up every gun and war implement on earth
today, and the greatest advance the world has ever seen would take
place. Inventions and discoveries not now dreamed of would follow
one another in rapid succession.
Blessed
are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Good).
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