in the days of our rugged Anglo-Saxon ancestors, but they brought
out only an infinitesimal fraction of the possibilities which
those laws contain: now we have brought out a good deal more, but
we have by no means exhausted them, and so we continue to
advance, not by contradicting natural laws, but by more fully
realizing their capacity. Why should we not, then, apply the same
method to ourselves and see whether there are no potentialities
hidden away in the law of our own being which we have not as yet
by any means brought to their fulfilment? We talk of a good time
coming and of the ameliorating of the race; but do we reflect
that the race is composed of individuals and that therefore real
advance is to be made only by individual improvement, and not by
Act of Parliament? and if so, then the individual with whom to
begin is ourself.

The complete manifestation of the Law of Individuality is the end
or purpose of the Bible teaching concerning Christ. It is a
teaching based upon Law, spiritual and mental, fully recognizing
that no effect can be produced except by the operation of an
adequate cause, and Christ is set before us both as explaining
the causes and exhibiting the full measure of the effects. All
this is according to Law; and the importance of its being
according to Law is that Law is universal, and the potentialities
of the Law are therefore inherent in everyone there is no special
law for anybody, but anybody can specialize the law by using it
with a fuller understanding of how much can be got out of it; and
the purpose of the Scripture teaching regarding Christ is to help
us to do this.

The preceding lectures have led us step by step to see that the