The Swedish army, during the period between 1902 and 1907, is composed of three distinct classes of troops, the Varfvade, or enlisted troops; the Indelta, which compares with the United States volunteer service in the time of war; and the Varnpligtige, or conscription troops, drawn from the male population between the ages of twenty-one and forty years. The total peace strength of the Swedish army consists of about 37,200 officers and men of the permanent army, and 1,424 in the reserves.

The Swedish navy is maintained wholly for coast defense.

The principal agricultural products of Sweden are wheat, rye, barley, oats, pulse and potatoes. large number of cattle are raised for home consumption and export.

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The troops of the Kingdom of Norway are raised mainly by conscription, and to a small extent by enlistment. All young men past the twenty-second year of age are liable to conscription, and every man capable of bearing arms and between the ages of eighteen and fifty is in time of war liable to service. The number of troops of the line, actually under arms, cannot exceed 18,000 men, even in time of war, without the consent of the Great Court, the legislative body of the Kingdom.

Like the Swedish navy, that of Norway is maintained solely for coast defense. The navy numbers about 120 officers in active service, and about 70 in reserve, and about 700 petty officers and seamen on permanent engagement.

Switzerland.

Capital:
BERNE.

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On the first of August. 1291, the men of Uri, Schwyz and Lower Unterwalden entered into a defensive league. By 1353 the league included eight cantons, and in 1513 there were thirteen. Various associated and projected territories were acquired, but no addition was made to the number of cantons forming the league until 1798, when, under the influence of France, the Helvetic Republic was formed with a regular constitution. This failed to satisfy the league, and in 1803 Napoleon, in the Act of Mediation, gave a new constitution and increased the number of cantons to nineteen. In 1815 the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland and the inviolability of her territory were guaranteed by the powers of Europe, and the Federal Pact which had been drawn up at Zurich. and which included three new cantons, was accepted by the Congress of Vienna. The Pact remained in force until 1848, when a new constitution, prepared without foreign interference, was accepted by general consent. On May 29, 1874, this was superseded by the constitution now in force.

The supreme legislative and executive powers are vested in a parliament of two chambers, a "Staenderath," or State Council, and a "Nationalrath," or National Council. The first is composed of forty-four members, chosen and paid by the twenty-two Cantons of the Confederation, two for each Canton. Three of the Cantous are politically divided, each division sending one representative to the State Council. The "Nationalrath" consists of 147 representatives of the Swiss people, chosen by direct election, at the rate of one deputy for every 20,000 of population. The members are paid from Federal funds at the rate of 20 francs for each day on which they are present, and 20 centimes per kilometer for travelling expenses. The Federal government is supreme in matters of peace, war and treaties; it regulates the army, the postal and telegraph systems, the coining of money, the issue and repayment of bank notes, and the weights and measures of the Republic. It legislates in matters of civil capacity, copyright, bankruptcy, patents, sanitary police in dangerous epidemies, and it may create and subsidize, beside the Polytechnic School at Zurich, a Federal university and other higher educational institutions. There has also been intrusted to it the authority to decide concerning public works for the whole or greater part of Switzerland, such as those relating to rivers, forests and the construction of railways.

The President of the Confederation and the Vice-President of the Federal Council are the first magistrates of the Confederation. Both are elected by the Federal Assembly in joint session for the term of one year, from January 1 to December 31, and are not eligible for re-election to the same offices until after the expiration of another year. The Vice-President may be, and usually is, elected to succeed the outgoing President. A general election of representatives takes place by ballot every three years. Every citizen of the Republic who has entered his twenty-first year is entitled to vote, and any voter not a clergyman may be elected a deputy. The first step toward legislative action may be taken by means of the popular initiative and laws passed by the Federal Assembly may be vetoed by popular voice. The President for 1902 was Joseph Zemp, and the Vice-President, A. Deucher.

Each of the cantons or demi-cantons of the Republic is "sovereign" so far as its independence and legislative powers are not restricted by the Federal constitution. Each has its local government, different in its organization in most instances, but all based on the principle of absolute sovereignty of the people. In a few of the smallest cantons the people exercise their powers direct without the intervention of any parliamentary machinery, all male citizens assembling together at stated periods, making laws and appointing their administrators.

A general census of Switzerland was taken in 1900, and the legal population was found to be 3,315,443 and the actual population present 3.325.023. In the middle of 1901 the population of the principal towns was as follows: Zurich, 152,942; Bale, 111.009; Geneva, 105,139; Berne, 64,864; Lausanne, 47,039; Lucerne, 29.633. The German language is spoken by a majority of the inhabitants of 18 cantons; the French in 5; the Italian in 1 and the Roumanish in 1. Of the 3.816 emigrants in 1900, 3,341 went to the United States. According to the constitution of 1874 there is a complete liberty of conscience and of religious creed. No one can incur any penalties whatsoever u account of his religious opinions and no one is bound to pay taxes especially appropriated to a creed to which he does not belong. No bishoprics can be created on Swiss territory without the approbation of the Confederation, and the Order of Jesuits and its affiliated societies cannot be received in any part of Switzerland. The population of the Republic is divided between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, about 59 per cent adhering to the former and 40 per cent to the latter. The government of the Protestant Church, Calvinistic in doctrine and Presbyterian in form, is under the supervision of the magistrates of the various Cantons, to whom is also intrusted the superintendence of public instruction. In the educational administration of Switzerland there is no centralization, the civil authorities of the Cantons having charge of the primary schools. In all the Cantons primary instruction is free, and in most of them it is compulsory. The expense is borne sometimes by the Cantons and sometimes by the Communes and Cantons together. Besides the public primary schools, there are improvement schools for recruits, private schools for boys and girls, commercial schools, and technical schools. There are five universities, organized on the model of those of Germany; a polytechnic school, and an academy. The Confederation has no power to levy direct taxes, and its chief source of revenue is the customs. A considerable income is derived from the postal and telegraph establishments, and from the Federal alcohol monopoly. Various Federal manufactories yield considerable revenue also. Laws are administered by the "Bundes-Gericht," or Federal Tribunal, which sits at Lausanne. This tribunal has two sections, to each of which is assigned the trial of suits in accordance with regulations framed by the tribunal itself. It has original and final jurisdiction between the Confederation and Cantons, between Canton and Canton and between the Confederation or Cantons and corporations or individuals, when the value of the dispute is not less than 3,000 francs. It is also called upon to decide many classes of railway suits. It is a Court of Appeal against decisions of other Federal authorities, and also tries persons accused of treason or other offences against the Confederation. Each Canton has its own judicial system for ordinary civil and criminal trials.

The fundamental laws of Switzerland forbid the maintenance of a standing army within the limits of the Republic. The Federal army consists of all men liable to military service, and both the army and war

materials are at the disposal of the Confederation. Every citizen of the Republic of military age, not exempt on account of bodily defect or other reason, is liable to service. In the first year of service every man undergoes a recruit's course of training, which lasts from 42 to 80 days, and during the remainder of his service he is called up once every two years for 16 days' training. Rifle practice and cavalry exercise, however, take place annually. The troops are divided into three classes, the Elite. consisting of all men able to bear arms, from the age of twenty to thirty-two: the Landwehr, comprising all men from the thirty-third to the completed forty-fourth year, and the Landsturm, which can be called out only in time of war, and consisting of all not otherwise serving and between the ages of seventeen and fifty, or, in the case of ex-officers, fifty-five. The effective strength of the Elite, Landwehr and Landsturm in July, 1901, was 518,265 men of all grades. A general muster of the militia is held annually. The Swiss army system, according to foreign military attaches who have been stationed in the Republic, is among the best in the world. Major G. R. Cecil, who has been United States Military Attache in Switzerland for the past three years, is quoted as saying that the evolutions of 1902 were a revelation and that it would take the armies of Europe to defeat the militia of this Republic on the battlefield.

The soil of Switzerland is very equally divided among the population, it being estimated that there are nearly 300,000 peasant farmers, representing a population of 2,000,000. Of the total area 28.4 per cent is unproductive. 35.8 per cent is under grass and meadows, 29 per cent under forests, and the remainder given up to agriculture. Rye, oats and potatoes are the chief crops, but the bulk of the food crops consumed in the country is imported. The chief agricultural industries are the manufacture of cheese and condensed milk, while about 30,448 hectares of vines under cultivation furnished 2,103,255 hectoliters of wine. The Swiss Confederation has the right of supervision over the police of the forests, and of framing regulations for their maintenance. In 1876 it was enacted that the forest reserve should never be reduced.

In 1900 there were 2,362 miles of railway within the Republic, and 200 miles of tramway, track and cable lines, open for traffic. On February 20, 1898, it was finally decided that the railways should be arquired by the State, and the financial operations for the transfers of the lines are now proceeding. In 1900 118 steamboats and 87 motor boats were in use on Swiss lakes. The tunnel connecting Switzerland and Italy, under the Simplon Pass, is the biggest thing of the kind yet attempted. It is to be, when completed, more than twelve miles long, consisting of two single-track tunnels, connected by air passages.

The Ministers of State are: Secretary of Interior. J. Rellstab: Secretary of Justice and Police, A. Reichel; Secretary of Military Department, S. Gutzwiller; Secretary of Finance, H. Imboden: Chiefs of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture, Dr. A. Eichmann, Dr. F. Kaufmann, Dr. F. Mueller; Secretary of Postal Service and Railways, Dr. H. Muggli.

Cariffs: The Existing Systems Defined.

One of the matters of vital importance to every person engaged in commerce is the system of tariff affecting the value of the markets of any one country to the people of any other. At the present time the four great commercial countries of the world-Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States-are each using a different system of tariff regulations for the goods which they import. Great Britain may be said to be practically without a tariff; Germany uses a multiple tariff, made up of a general and a conventional schedule: France uses a multiple tariff, composed of a maximum schedule, and the United States may be said to use a general tariff which is applied to imports without discrimination as to their origin.

The systems, therefore, may be classed under three heads, namely: (1) The general tariff system; (2) the general and conventional tariff system, and (3) the maximum and minimum tariff system.

Tariff systems, therefore, may be classed under three heads, namely: (1) and consists in having a single schedule of import duties, which is applied to the goods of all countries without distinction. Such a tariff system is altogether an act of the legislative branch of the government. It takes account only of the needs of the home country, and recognizes foreign commercial relations only in so far as the latter are in harmony with home interests. It is difficult to maintain where the schedule contains many high protective duties, owing to the fact that foreign countries will endeavor to make with each other commercial treaties to mutually guarantee tariff concessions, while the State using the general tariff cannot make such treaties and is not in a position to secure a share of those advantages. Some countries have sought to solve the problem by making treaties and then placing the concessions in the general tariff, where they would apply to all nations.

The system of general and conventional tariffs, however, makes a distinction between goods which come from different countries. The fact that nations which make use of a general tariff often find themselves compelled to change this tariff when they later make commercial treaties is evidence of how difficult it is to maintain such a tariff intact. But since modern nations are practically compelled to have more or less close commercial relations with each other, some way of regulating these relations must be found, and the usual method of securing this end is by means of a mutual understanding between the countries in question. Generally one nation declares itself ready to grant some concession or reduction in its tariff if a correspondIng concession is offered in return. If an agreement is reached, a treaty is then made, and as a rule the willingness is expressed to make further treaties with other countries under similar conditions. Such a treaty will usually introduce new tariff rates. If the State substitutes these rates for those in the general tariff, then no change in the system takes place. The usual course, however, is for the State to now maintain two columns in its tariff schedule; the first for those countries enjoying the "most-favored-nation" treatment, which is called the treaty or conventional tariff, and the second containing the original rates, for those countries not receiving this treatment, and termed the general tariff.

The rates of the conventional schedule are, of course, rather higher than those of the general schedule. It may be, however, that one nation regards it of importance that a certain rate, a reduction of which is refused by the other power, should not be increased during the period for which the treaty is made. The making of an agreement that rates shall not be changed is termed "binding" such rates. That is, the conventional tariff schedule is composed of reduced and bound," or fixed rates. The general schedule may be changed at any time without breaking any of the conditions of the treaty, but the conventional schedule can only be changed by the consent of both parties.

The general tariff is framed with the acknowledged purpose of being the basis for the negotiations of commercial treaties. A conventional schedule is drawn up in these treaties, and, by the action of the mostfavored-nation clause, the conventional tariff becomes so extended in application that, as a rule, it is the exception to apply the general tariff. For this reason the general tariff is regarded mainly in the light of a preliminary sketch of the real tariff. As a consequence, the rates in the general schedule are not infrequently made rather high, so that they can readily be reduced and concessions demanded in return. There is always the possibility, however, that the negotiations may be broken off for some unforseen reason, and the undesired high rates become actual rates. This possibility generally exerts a restraining influence in the framing of the general tariff. The course which events in the field of commercial policy may take will always exert considerable influence in the formation of such tariff schedules, but the main consideration must always be the needs of the home producers.

The maximum and minimum tariff system is distinguished from the above system, first of all, in its form. Instead of having two rates for a few articles it has two rates on most articles on which duties are imposed, and for this season is frequently called the double tariff system. In the application of these rates the maximum schedule corresponds to the general schedule and the minimum schedule to the conventional schedule of the system just described, since the minimum rates are given only to those countries which receive the most-favored-nation treatment. The characteristic difference between the two systems, however, arises from the difference in their origin. The minimum schedule is not drawn up by negotiations between the executives of two countries, but is framed by the legislative body at the same time that the maximum schedule is made. That is, the legislative power fixes two rates of duty on each article in the tariff. higher rate is the one which fixes the maximum extent to which those articles may be taxed on entering the country; the lower, or minimum rate, is the one which fixes the minimum extent to which the duty may be lowered. If it is desired to make commercial treaties at any time, these two rates show the exact limits between which the treaty rates are to be fixed.

Tennessee.

Capital:
NASHVILLE.

The name of Tennessee is derived from the Indian name Tanassee, given to the Little Tennessee River. De Sota probably visited the spot where Memphis now stands, but the first settlement was attempted by a party from North Carolina, in 1754. These were soon driven out by the Indians, and in 1756 the first permanent settlement was made, and Fort Loudon built on the Tennessee River, about 30 miles from the present site of Knoxville. In 1760 the fort was attacked by the Indians, and the whites capitulated upon condition that they be allowed to return to North Carolina. On the second day of their march they were overtaken by the Indians and many of them butchered, the survivors being returned to captivity. In 1761 an armed force

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from Virginia and North Carolina succeeded in subduing the savages, and settlements increased rapidly along the Watauga and Holston Rivers. From 1777 to 1784 the territory formed part of North Carolina, and in 1790 it was organized, together with Kentucky, as a Territory south of the Ohio. In 1794 a distinct Territorial government was given Tennessee, and in 1796 it was admitted to the Union as a State. The seat of Government of Tennessee was originally at Knoxville, and was changed at various times to Kingston, back to Knoxville, to Nashville, again to Knoxville, to Murfreesboro, and, in 1826, to Nashville, where it remained.

The General Assembly of the State was convoked in extra session January 7, 1861, to consider what action should be taken by the State in view of the impending difficulties between the South and the North. In East Tennessee the people were opposed to secession, while those in the Western part of the State were in favor of a separation from the Union. The Governor, Isham G. Harris, actively favored the Southern cause

and refused to honor the President's requisition for troops from that State when Fort Sumter was fired on. In May, 1861, a military league was formed with the Confederate States by Commissioners appointed for that purpose, and was ratified by the Legislature. On June 8, by a majority vote of 57,675, it was decided to withdraw from the Union.

Eastern Tennessee formed the arena for some of the hardest fighting of the civil war, and it was not until the latter part of 1864 that this section began to be free of soldiers and raiding parties. In January. 1865, a convention assembled at Nashville and proposed amendments to the constitution, abolishing slavery. annulling the military league, the State declaration of independence, the ordinance of secession and all acts of the Confederate Government. These amendments were ratified by the people February 22, 1865.

Tennessee has an area of 42,050 square miles, and in 1901 its population was estimated to be 2,048,000. The manufacturing industries of this State have increased rapidly during the last decade, due largely to the exploitation of its mineral deposits including coal, iron and copper ores. Flour and grist mill products rank of first importance in the lumber and timber has second some of the finest tobacco grown for the bright tobaccos of Greene tobaccos of the Clarksville district.

The Legislature of 1901 passed changing the age at which children shop, factory or mine from 12 to ployers be required, instead of actual age of the children employ were required to have certificates State Board of Mine Examiners, obtain such certificates the appli isfactory examination and to show years of actual mining experience.

Laws were passed for the pur whites and blacks absolutely sep ited the teaching of whites and college, and prohibited instructors, ment, from teaching both whites bill introduced into the House to to furnish separate cars for ne

A labor act made it unlawful for of any kind either from another Tennessee to his workshop, fac tion" concerning the conditions of be given for the work. "False strued, among other things, to in importing workmen to inform them trouble at his works, if there were

State, while the manufacture of place. Tennessee also produces in the United States, being famous County and the fine red shipping

an act amending the act of 1893, might be employed in any work14 years, and directed that emsimply permitted, to discover the ed. Mine foremen or assistants issued on recommendation of the created under the same act. To cants were required to pass a satthat he had had at least five

It was provided that a tax should be levied upon all Pullman cars and all other cars except passenger cars owned by companies outside the State but operated within the State. Street car companies were directed to equip their cars with vestibules from the 1st of November to the middle of March for the protection of motormen. It was made a misdemeanor for any person or corporation to sell or to bring into the State for the purpose of selling or giving away any cigarettes or cigarette paper or substitute therefor. Congress was petitioned to provide for the establishment of a school of mines in every State not having such an institution, and also to call a convention to propose a constitutional amendment providing for the direct eiection of United Stats Senators. Several amendments to the State constitution were proposed looking to the reduction of State expenses.

The Democratic State Convention met May 29, 1902. The platform adopted reaffirms the Kansas City declaration, denounces trusts, imperialism and the Ship Subsidy bill. It declares for a tariff for revenue only, and one plank favors the union label on State printing. The Republican State convention was held June 18, and a platform was a lopted indorsing the administration of President Roosevelt. A full State ticket was nominated.

At the State election held in November, James B. Frazier, the Democratic candidate, was elected by a majority of about 50,000. The anti-Saloon League, which was an important factor in the State legislative campaign, was surprisingly successful, the House of Representatives going overwhelmingly its way, while in the Senate the League has a small majority. Both Houses are largely Democratic.

Texas.

Capital:
AUSTIN.

In 1685 a colony of French emigrants, led by La Salle, landed in Matagorda Bay and erected Fort Louis on the Lavaca. In 1689 an expedition was sent out by the Spanish to drive the French away, and the little garrison at Fort Louis was compelled to scatter. The next year the mission of San Francisco was established at the site of Fort Louis. In 1714 the French again attempted to effect a settlement within the limits of what is now Texas. Missions were established by the French and Spanish, but owing to the attacks of the Indians and internal dissensions, these declined, and in 1765 there were not more than 750 European inhabitants in the territory. The feud between France and Spain was settled by the cession of Louisiana to the former power, and

in 1803, when the United States bought this territory from France, there had been no well defined boundary agreed upon between this and the Spanish territory to the west. This led to controversy between the United States and Spain, which did not end until the Mexican War, whereby the United States gained possession of the entire region.

Texas has an area of 265.780 square miles, and in 1901 its population was estimated to be 3,142.000. In manufacturing this State has shown a marked increase during the past decade, its industries depending upon the development of the natural resources. Lumber, cotton and wheat are produced in abundance, and the large area of the State and heavy freight charges tend to increase the manufacture of products for local consumption. The most important industry is the manufacture of lumber and timber products, while the manufacture of cotton seed oll and cake ranks second, to which is allied cotton ginning. In these latter Texas ranks second in the United States. In 1900 Texas was sixth among the wheat producing States, and as a consequence of this the grist and flour mill products have steadily increased. The recent discovery of apparently inexhaustible oil fields in the State has provided a cheap fuel for local use, and has brought an enormous increase of capital to Texas.

A drastic anti-trust law passed in 1900, was amended by the Legislature in 1901, authorizing citizens of Texas to form corporations to do business in Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, and foreign countries, and the object of the law was stated to be that Texas should not be deprived of "the legitimate revenues that should be derived from the business enterprise of her citizens." Another corporation law, in

tended to prevent black-listing, provided that while a corporation or firm might, upon application, give in writing a statement of the reasons why an employe was discharged, it should not anywhere publish a statement to prevent any employe who had voluntarily left the corporation from obtaining similar or other employment elsewhere.

Another law provided that no tickets or checks convertible into checks should be negotiable in cash was made, to the effect that cor monthly might in the interim grant and request of the employes.

An industrial institute and col girls in the arts and sciences was literary courses, it was to provide professional and domestic lines. An any attorney who should directly or should agree to loan or give money case he were selected as attorney. a truthful account of proceedings tive or legislative proceedings or and fair criticism of official acts not be construed as libel; and in to be permitted to give in evidence and any public retraction that had the statements, were to be taken gress was permitted to call a con amendment providing for the direct

The Democratic State Conven ed a platform affirming the dec form, and it strongly recommend ment of children under twelve machinery is used. The Republi tember 10 and 11, indorsed without President Roosevelt and declared Republicans for President in 1904. held August 13. In its platform the "initiative and referendum" name, Allied People's Party," was adopted for the party in Texas. Convention was indorsed.

Theosophy: The Universal Brotherhood.

Gov. S. W. T. Lanham.

firm should pay its employes in merchandise only, but all such at their face value. An exception porations or firms who paid in cash merchandise checks at the instance lege for the education of white established, and besides the regular girls with practical training along act provided for the debarment of indirectly solicit business or who or other valuable inducement in A libel law enacted provided that in a court of justice or of execuof public meetings, or reasonable as matters of public welfare should action for libel the defendant was the intention of the publication, since been made. and the truth of as a defense to the action. Convention to propose a constitutional election of United States Senators. tion met July 16, 1902, and adoptlarations of the Kansas City plated a law prohibiting the employyears of age in factories where cans, at their convention held Sepqualification the administration of him to be the choice of Texas The Populist convention was made the principal issues. The The platform of the St. Louis

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Theosophy is the philosophy of the soul. Its ethics are based upon the eternal verities. Scientific and not theoretic or speculative, it treats only of universal laws, changeless and absolute. This science of the spirit is the root from which has sprung all the diversity called the religions of the world. Starting as truth, and passing through the alembic of the human mind, "The truth becomes obscured by that which is not true, and therefore all creatures are led astray." Hence the creeds, the sects, are results of the "I think" of man.

MRS. KATHERINE RICHMOND-GREENE.

The test of Theosophy is that it explains all phenomena. Through its teachings man learns his true place in the universe and his relation to it; while all the doubt, darkness and mystery that enshrouds human existence resolves to certainty, light and consciousness. It assures the perfectibility of man, and proof is not denied to the earnest student, who, obedient to the law, leads the life which quickens the spiritual powers latent in all men. Theosophy protests against the abuses of the law, and it protests against the perversion and loss to man of his glorious heritage of the divine. Christ as "the only begotten Son it took Him out of the universal, evolutions, He became at last a are no more referred to in any pul related to the human save through lutionary process, and the final de the varied experiences called life. meaning when he said: "Know temple of God?" Theosophy alone meaning in saying to his disciples. is, lead the life): "To you it is kingdom of heaven, but to the

Theosophy and the ethics of the who have taken a human instru is the process, and We are the work of the soul accomplished. In death the soul leads the human. worker-warrior, watcher. The huhimself-as ye sow so shall ye planted in the soil of the human, each rebirth; if allowed to grow the man has gathered to himself and bear fruit. "Theosophy, the ture to be dual. The human to. lower selfish desires of man's struggling to conquer the lower derful instrument, the body of tradictions. perplexities, are alone osophy, and all the race, in what potential gods.

Mme. Blavatsky.

The church in particularizing Jesus of God" dwarfed the human when and thus unrelated to the human wonder-worker, and the mysteries pit; nor can they be understood and a perfect comprehension of the evovelopment of the God-man through Theosophy alone explains Christ's ye not that ye are gods and the makes comprehensible Christ's after they had followed him (that given to know the mysteries of the multitude I speak in parables." Christ are one. We are gods, ment to spiritualize it; evolution soul. Not in one short life is the and out the gates of birth and The unchanging soul, the silent man at rebirth is the past of also reap." The seeds of evil, quicken and become stronger at and root in the nature, and when innumerable existences, they flower wisdom religion, shows man's nabe the battle ground between the nature and the spiritual forcesbrute man-and dominate the wonman. The human conditions, concomprehensible in the light of Theever condition or environment, are

The Theosophical movement in this period was established in 1875. Its object was to form a necleus for universal brotherhood. To prove brotherhood to be a fact in nature. Two subsidiary objects were added: "To study and investigate ancient religions, and to demonstrate the value of the same; and, object third, to quicken the physical powers latent in man.

The society openly receives all who apply for membership, without any distinctions whatsoever. As the instruction given and knowledge gained affects the evolution of every member, tending to quicken the latent spiritual powers, those who think deeply enough may realize a danger that may arise from this process and barmful results too often follow from those steps that should be taken sacredly and utterly free from motives of selfishness. Obedience to law is strenuously insisted upon, and this obedience and the strict the department, which covers the entire cost pretty thoroughly.