The San Francisco call., 1896-05-03

their Identification with it, but ethicist,
generally dispute that. and for abundant
reason. 1t is a fact that humanity does
not advance wholly upon ethical lines
and hence the public work devolving upon
the enfranchised man or woman could not
De altogether ethicized. 1t is the fact, too,
that civilization is urged forward by two
more or less antagonistic forces, one oil
which is ethical in some degree, while the
other IS not at all so. The non-ethical
force is blind desire to secure political
privileges for the one purpose of remov-
ing oostructions that lie between purpose
ana accomplishment. This would be i1n-
bridle6 license 10 give full play to un.
ethlcai desires. The ethical. or rather the
partially ethical, force would use political
privileges with discriminating Judgment.
hrst for purely selfish purpose-to ac-
cumulate property holdings and social DO
sltion Tor personal advantage-and, Sec
ono, Tor the altruistic purpose of perpetu-
atlng the privileges for the good OF poster
ity. This is as near an ethical basis for
ponticai privileges as can be reached until
man himself adopts very much higher
code OF ethics than now prevails in the
world Tor his conduct of inner and out
ward life.
Yet. while realizing that the substruc-
ture OF political privileges must be some
WHAT ethical in character, neither one of
these forces would admit, nor would the
pniiosophlcal woman suffragist admit that
the superstructure could be ethicized, ex-
cePt Dy the slow process of that moral
un1oioment which is the privilege of the
experience gathered from the field OF the
egos planting ana harvesting during
many wel-spent lives upon this earth. 1t
loliows, therefore, that the political en-
n ~ ,lrv
NOT ethlclze the Nations economic or So
clai lnnuence, but it would seriously en-
uahger her own progress and be almost
sure to make bad Karma tor the n alton,
Ior the community, for the family and for
the individual.
a.. The ultimate evolution of personal Gre
ation Is into impersonal Brahm, but re-
tanning individuality. The dewdrop that
returns to the sea is still an individual
oeworop:: The frog could not be a frog
wilnout nrst acquiring all the experience
oI taopoie life, nor could the butterfly
polse IN mldair and flash its many colors
until 1t had gathered to itself the personal
experience of caterpillar life.
The evolution of the ego is a process or
metnod OF universal life, which is force
anu lnSeliigence, to carry the individual
sDlrlt from experience to experience, and
IL never permits the ego to omit, pass by
or forget a single phase of existence. In
o1Sn ca inCal nation the ego must ascend into
al the heights and traverse all the depths
within the range of its environment and
opportunity. Destiny surveys ana marks
OUT the way and assigns to duty the ego
IN the held OF each incarnation, and Karma
Keeps note OF things done and undone.
10 Journey upon path or highway other
than the one upon which lies the then
needed experience is not only to SOW and
reap tares and poison-weed ones own self,
but It is to scatter seed of tares and poison
weed for another to harvest. When dwell
Ing IN house of flesh AID representing
the female principle of universal lie, the