While Emancipation in the individual is worth more than all the wealth
of the world to him without it, organization about the idea is
desirable for the purpose of aiding others; and, (through coöperation
and the most perfect economics) lightening the burden of compulsory
labor, in order that there shall be more time to devote to recreation
and recreative labor.
[Sidenote: Organization Desirable]
Organization on the basis of Emancipation is sure to be the next great
movement of reform and growth, in the light of whose strength, the puny
efforts of the past will seem like the light of a tallow dip beside an
electric cluster.
[Sidenote: Adds Everything Takes Nothing]
This will come; not because I have discovered it for myself and am
publishing an account of the discovery to my friends, but because the
world has learned something of the powers at its command; has learned
the possibility of germ cure in physics; has learned the efficacy of
mental therapeutics in matters of both mind and body; and is ripe for
it. When I tell my friends my experience and deductions, they are
prepared at once to accept them with credence. And so it will be with
them and their friends, for logic and self interest are merits to
commend it to all intelligent persons; and, in the immediate future, it
is not unreasonable to hope that Emancipation, as a basic condition
favorable to growth and Brotherhood, may not be an uncommon
accomplishment and requirement. I believe that it is one of the first
steps urged in Christian Science and rendered possible by the belief,
as it is in the Buddhist Discipline and Christian formula, and in the
circle of my acquaintance there are already many believers in the
possibility of Emancipation, who are enjoying its benefits; who find
that it is _the one little ingredient_ necessary to perfect their
established beliefs, and strengthen their present affiliations; and to
whom it adds everything and from whom takes nothing.
[Sidenote: No End to Growth]
All the members of religious sects; all the members of fraternal
societies, as well as many of the disconnected seekers after
intellectual and spiritual growth, should be eager to enroll themselves
under the banner of Emancipation; and if this should happen, the wished
for Utopia of the most fertile imagination, would not be as remote as
it has seemed to be in the past.