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not go to oblivion, because oblivion has no consciousness. Wherever life exists, you will again feel yourself as one unit of it although the entire universe became devoid of all but one mortal. If that one were to disappear, then all life would have sublimated back to God, from whence it always was in the first place. “Life is everlasting, both your life and mine. What we leave behind when we go out, that is what we shall inherit when we sored Pet. te toe come in, at the very next instant. It becomes plain that, if only for selfish reasons, it pays to learn and to teach. If there should be twenty billion people on earth near perfection and one should be either ill or unlearned, all attention would be focused on that one. He would be the best known individual on earth. He could start that civilization back to retrogression, like a germ in a body. “By the same token, Adam, if all the billions were primitive and one was endowed with learning and vision, he could eventually bring that whole populace into enlightenment by teaching and by breeding his kind among them. You have been told that our retarded ones are kept among themselves in our world. Andromeda is such a concentration area, and Launie is one of the ones hindmost. But she is not offended. She wants to be among her own kind, to learn, to generate better and better, and so it is with all the others. We cannot risk falling back. A perfection awaits us W 1 » all sometime, somewhere.” “Now,” Saturn offered, “do you wish to say something?” “I do. It is a question,” said Adam. “If learning is the very basis of human life, which came first on earth, for instance, the school or the church?” egg. There was no division between them at the dawn of time and there really is none now, except the division that ignorance thinks exists. “You will notice in your history that be they Scriptures or history books, both feature highly the accomplishments of man such as arts, literature, symbols, numbers and upheavals of whole nations. 160 SON OF THE SUN “Both came at the same time, Adam, like the chicken and the