For my generation, the rôle of John the Baptist must be our extreme ambition. We can proclaim and make evident the advent of a new phase of human faith and effort. We can point out the path it has been our lifework to discover. We have struggled through the thought and bitter experiences of our time. We have hammered out our instinctive individualism on the anvil of socialism; we have witnessed the apocalypse of the Great War; we have been misled, we have stumbled through depths of despair, we have learnt. “Here,” we say, “is what we have made of it all. Here is the basis for a new world.” In the few years remaining to us we can hope to do no more than that. It is for you to say whether you will set your feet in this direction and go along with us and go further. Upon you--individually and multitudinously--the future rests. Here and there chance may correct and supplement the efforts of our race and save us from the full penalties of our mistakes and negligences, but saving the impact of some unimagined disaster from outer space, the ultimate decision of the fate of life upon this planet lies now in the will of man. THE END Transcriber’s Note: Spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been retained as appears in the original publication except as follows: Page viii of the miscroscope _changed to_ of the microscope Page 79 in power and auhority warlike classes _changed to_ in power and authority warlike classes Page 98 no discrimination at last between _changed to_ no discrimination at least between Page 107 or how rapidy the knowledge _changed to_ or how rapidly the knowledge Page 165 as defeat for the selecter _changed to_ as defeat for the selector Page 200 mistakes and negligencies _changed to_ mistakes and negligences