and the result has been most satisfactory, having now worked well for over two thousand years. We believe in 'Love for one another, absolute justice to all, and veneration for that mighty, all-powerful and incomprehensible Great Being who created and who controls the universe with love, mercy, and truth;—a Being so wonderfully great in His omnipotence, that we are a thousand times less in comparison to Him, than the smallest microbe which floats about in the blood of the most insignificant little insect, is to this globe on which we live. As I told you, if any one of our community through great learning, or great intellectual power, or through adulation begins to think he is greater or nobler than he is, we take him to the Observatory and he comes away with a true perception of his own nothingness. He is thus imbued with a larger desire to learn more from the inexhaustible field of unexplored knowledge that is yet but barely entered upon. I sometimes think, my Specimen, that should the world last for tens
