At the end of the volume are given a few notes explaining the terms used by Sri Aurobindo and a bibliography. Our aim will be accomplished if the reader is induced to turn to the original works. The reconciliation is achieved by an evolutionary progress. Man's highest aspiration would then only indicate the gradual unveiling of the Spirit within, the preparation of a higher life upon earth. An evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
Man occupies the crest of the evolutionary wave.
With him occurs the passage from an unconscious to a conscious evolution. At each step one receives an intimation of what the following step will be. The nature of the next step is indicated by the deep aspirations awakening in the human race. A change of consciousness is the major fact of the next evolutionary transformation, and the consciousness itself, by its own mutation, will impose and effect any necessary mutation of the body. There is no reason to suppose that this transformation is impossible on earth.