science. The human form is a spiritual force-a form of creative genius endowed with majesty and power. As such it must be known in its essential nature and conditions before we can proceed to comprehend and apply investing methods or conduits thereto. Hence metaphysics, or the science of mind, is sternly fundamental to civic science in institutional methods. Exact knowledge of the substance is requisite before we may proceed to ally it with its true investiture. And, although an elaborate presentation of this science of metaphysics does not seem necessary for the purposes of this treatise, its methods will be suggested, over and over, by the formulas and discussions proposed.

Here another predicate comes in order. It is this: Man (mind) is supremely objective or magisterial in the creative scheme, and institutional forms (government) are subjective or ministerial.

This is a truth so fundamental and constant that any human system that fails to see in the lowest and basest of human kind the foetal or infantile heir to a lordly inheritance in a divinelydestined patrimony, and neglects to rear and train its ward accordingly, violates its obligations as an authority, and does not rule by divine right."

Authority, even of an arbitrary nature, is necessary during all stages of human development; but authority that violates this fundamental social law of the essential majesty of man, and constant servility of all institutions to that august presence, is not an authority poised in divine right, and will surely come to naught, whether it appears under the rule of despotic or democratic institutions.

But, to get our foundation well laid, we must lay it piece by piece; so we proceed :

THIS HUMAN FORM IS THREEFOLD.

Basic is the Sensory Economy (animal-human), whose controlling authority is unreasoning force, represented by penal law.

Mediate is the Rational Economy (human-human), whose

authority is educated reason under conscience, represented by moral law.

Supreme is the Sophial Economy (divine-human), whose authority is spontaneous life, represented by social law, under whose diction, as science, all extremes and diversities become reconciled and ordered, freedom constant in immutable law, and authority relieved of all pressure through right adjust

ment.

The lowest degree, being immersed in mere sense-conditions, cannot, of itself, rise above them.

The mediate degree carries sense-power up into distinctive human realms of conscience and rational ideas, but cannot, unhelped, rise above that unsatisfactory state.

The supreme degree carries sense and reason up into the realm of regal greatness, in infinite love, wisdom, and power; there disciplines, qualifies, and empowers for the order of scientific fruition to which the whole form is destined.

It is essential to impress our thought somewhat with this order of degrees as universally prevalent in the human form, because by that alone do we come to comprehend the verities of human experience and human destiny, and derive a sure clew to processes of human culture competent to carry the whole body steadily up to its best estate.

Here is the proper aim of all true thought and endeavor to-day. We are not to convert, immediately, the principle of social law into methods of final organization and ripest uses in best social conditions. The material for those conditions is mostly wanting, at present. That material is found only in maturest human character, genius, and power in all personal forms. Hence the work of true social science shall consist, for the present, in projecting primary institutions, of every kind, adapted to the physical, moral, and social nature and conditions of the whole people. The principle of the universal unity of mankind-amplest fraternity must steadily vitalize and illumine those processes, else they will descend to the partial, exclusive, and selfish methods of present ruling, rather than remain constantly true to the divinely-human behests of social law.

No building can be built and adapted to its purposes in use till its material shall have been fully wrought out and fitted for the structure, according to plan and specifications given. Nor can that sublime structure, human society, be reared and converted to orderly use till the human material is fully wrought into qualified conditions. So, while social law, in a conception of human society, is indispensable to shape, and rule constantly all preliminary, qualifying methods, the masterbuilder will never for a moment countenance any rude attempts to leap into full occupancy and use of best social conditions, while only qualifying or structural processes are in order. This must be constantly urged.

The partial, trifling schemes of social organization that have sprung up and failed because of this oversight of primary conditions because of this attempt to "take the kingdom of heaven by violence," rather than by general qualification for its exalted conditions are apt illustrations of the folly of trying to realize the harvest before entering into the toils of cultivation. No man, nor set of men, has a right to withdraw and stand aloof from the toils and burdens of the great race of human kind. To rush with headlong zeal for Heaven, and leave the degraded brotherhood writhing in the pangs of Hades, were selfish greed so diabolic that Hadean flames were sure to overleap their accustomed bounds and torture such selfishness with becoming discipline.

Now, in order to make the rule of the thought I am trying to advance more intelligible, as also the thought itself, let me try to represent to the senses the whole system involved-that, if there fail to be fullness and consistency in verbal expression, wholeness of representation may remedy the short-coming and carry full conviction.

The representative formula here presented is derived in unitary principles of creative law, that embrace, not only the processes of the productive or generative series, but also genetic root as base of development, and generated result as crowning fruition thereto.

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The ordering principle thus presented, let us be careful to observe, is simply the law of triplicity, embracing :

First. Monoplicity; as subjective power, involved, in indefinite form, or chaos.

Second. Duplicity; as subjective power in transit, through evolutionary processes, by toils, struggles, conflicts, and unrest, specifically elaborating all particular forms and forces involved.

Third. Triplicity; as subjective power become objective in evolved state, and at rest in the inspiring delights of spontaneity, through perfection of powers and conditions.

Although the human form is thus defined in successive order, the three elements of human personality are involved, and simultaneously active, from the beginning, but are not seen and understood in best respects till revealed in the life and light of the ultimate degree come to be an actual experience. Although the ultimate form — perfect manhood cannot be known or comprehended excepting as the human affections and intellect are ripened into vital unity with that great destiny wherein the race puts on its royal robes, yet it is the only living power in all history, without which the race could never rise above the most stolid communal chaos, but by virtue of which its destined glory, in the realms of our common experience, is surely fixed.

Let us not be misled by any unreal appearance in the diagram. It actually presents only three degrees, or moments, as a rule of thought. The multiplied divisions of the second degree (II) do not add to these three terms, as may at first Any seeming of that kind comes from repeated solutions of that degree-extended analyses of the generative factor of the scale-made by carrying the same alkahestic trine into minor quests in this special realm.

seem.

All developing movement is derived in static base, as initial form, and tends to crowning result in end achieved.

End of development, or productive energy, does not imply a rest in stagnation or death, as sometimes erroneously conceived. It only implies objective attainment in perfect conditions of life and uses. This end, in human development, is a

DIAGRAM OF CREATIVE LAW, REPRESENTING THE SERIAL ORDER

OF THE HUMAN FORM, AND RELATED ORDER

OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTITURE.

NOTE.-Monal Development covers, in the Human Series, the conditions of infantile growth; Dual Development relates to youthful growth; and Trine Development relates to the ripening process of human character-growth in manhood. The unit of human character and power, indicated under III, embraces all human excellence, with accordant institutional forms, and thus stands for full, perfect manhood and scientific order.