The divine quality in man, growing out of appreciation, finds first expression in love; not the passive principle, the opposite of hate, but the growing, active principle, which is constantly flowing forth from the spiritually blessed to bathe with warmth of unselfishness the just and the unjust alike. Love begets altruism. As "perfect love casteth out fear," so does the eradication of fear insure the wooing of perfect love. ALTRUISM. Next in the scale of importance is Comte's word "altruism," which was coined to suggest the Christ-like attitude of unselfish service between fellow-men. It is, however, as before stated, now commonly understood to be the social or business application of the principle of love which needs and expects to be reciprocal. Men were asked to become altruists when they were asked to "do unto others as you would that others should do unto you." Growth towards divinity is the fruit of perfect altruism. Perfect Love begets Perfect Altruism. Christ is the Perfect Altruist. SPONTANEOUS ALTRUISM. Any degree of altruism is good and is sure to lead to higher degrees, but the perfect type is best kept in view by the use of the qualified form expressed by the adjective "spontaneous"--meaning voluntary, without reward, except as found in the act itself. This qualification is almost necessary to prevent the lowering of the value of the term, as "perfect" was required to express Christ-Love, in contra-distinction to worldly love. OPTIMISM. Optimism is _forethought_. Christianity, pure and undefiled, is perfect optimism. Christ is the Perfect Optimist.[2] FORETHOUGHT. "Forethought" is _the logical, trustful, hopeful, Christian, and therefore stimulating, consideration of the future_. Forethought cannot be contrasted as the opposite of fearthought for the same reason that a tree cannot be contrasted as the opposite of its shadow; one being the growing, fruit-bearing substance; and the other being the unsubstantial, unillumined simulation of the living reality. ENVIRONMENT. _Surroundings which impress themselves upon the mind and assist to influence and form character and opinions._ SPIRITUAL CEREBRATION. Sometimes called unconscious cerebration; _intelligence not derived from experience_; principally obtained during undisturbed sleep, and, seemingly, supernaturally clear to consciousness on awakening in natural manner; Spiritual Cerebration is man's best partner, if confidently listened to, heeded and followed. NATURAL SELECTION. _Unconscious physical attraction_; assisting sustenance, protection, development and reproduction; attribute of all life. DIVINE SELECTION. _Attribute only of Man; distinguishing Man from the rest of Creation; exercised in modifying the brute law of the "survival of the fittest, or strongest," by cultivating harmonic conditions favoring growth and producing happiness; God's Higher Law of Harmony executed through Man._ HAPPINESS.