Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-23
"ECONOMIC COOPERATION
is FUTURE OF RACE"
B. FAY MILLS LECTURES TO
FELLOWSHIP
Demonstration of Graft" He Says,
"Are but Eddles in the
Stream of Human
Progress"

BENJAMIN Fay Mills delivered an ad
dress yesterday before the Fellowship II
Blanchard hall He said:
1.-The world progresses.
at is a schoolroom, which continual.
changes until it shall be more than
schoolroom, perfectly adapted Tor TN
habitation of perfect race.
Our question concerns man. Does hi
knowledge grow from more to more?
HE has learned to keep what he hal
acquired BY language, writing ant
printing he now communicates his though
and passes on his best conceptions to his
successors.
HE knows the earth's surface, all ex-
cept the poles, and soon he will have ex-
plored their mysteries
HE knows a great deal of the physical
world BY his scientific method he has
learned how to learn. He has demon
strated from facts the three great gen.
ordinations of law, progress and unity,
furnishing standing ground for rational
faith, hope and love. He is learning how
to use nature. His present progress is
not so much in the arts, nor even in
theoretical science as In the application
of natural forces to the development of
the world, the application of ideas to
human progress.
'The arts of India and Egypt, and
Il d.
alone Now our art has become practical,
and we are making the material world
more of an instrument and carrier OF
ideas than ever before. We will attend
to the embroidery in due time.
Now for the first time the hidden
forces are intellectually directed by man
in serving the permanent interests of the
race. One by one man takes up the
forces of nature, until at last the world
will be but a realized human will.
HE knows human history. Never until
now has man known man. Now he is
acquainted with his fellows, ancient and
modern, with their languages, laws, Gus
toms and religions. He finds that he has
always been ascending, so that his history
may be described as the rise of man.
HE has abolished slavery, enfranchised
woman and opened the gate of opportun-
ity to the child. Many men have almost
entirely outgrown the brute.
''He knows the rational method of life.
This is no longer a speculation. To live
according to reason and the inner law, to
grow in intellectual and spiritual culture,
to direct the will on universal ends and
given the life to love Is known as the fun
damental and eternal basis of morality.
''This is the ideal for the Individual for
the home for the school and for the
economic and political world.
"At last we see the object of toll, in the
production of unity among men and the
establishment of reign of mutual SER
vice.
POLITICALLY the history of $500 years is
the story of the progressive triumph of
the democratic idea. We are beginning
to perceive that not alone the great cor
porations may be called public service
institutions. but that all business and
politics are designed to be public service.
"Our ideals are cooperation instead Of
competition. the people ruling themselves
instead of the many being subject to the
few, all nations living like brothers in
one organization of the world.
saTbese little demonstrations of greed
and graft are only eddies in the great
stream of human progress. The great
stream of human progress runs to-
ward the freedom of every Individual;
economic cooperation instead of competi-
ton; absolute political democracy and
worldwide mutual service in place Of
strife; the universal religion of trust and
love instead of the petty sectarianisms
which many so~called religions now are.
HE knows more of the invisible world
and the probable future of man.
''The work of the psychic scientists can
not be overestimated in its value If
what many of them have come to believe
be true the deadly blight of materialism
will be ended, men on earth will work in
Intelligent cooperation with the unseen
and the aim of evolution and
the purpose of creation will have been
forever established.
1--WE know that we are all moving on,
we know the direction of our progress
and we know how to accelerate it."