It is the Theorem of Psychology.
It involves the Evolution and Destiny of the Human Soul.
As civilization in many places showed an advancing tendency from the darkness, despotism and brutality of the Dark Ages, the “Robber Barons” began to disappear. Their slogan was, “He may seize who hath the power and he may hold who can.” Serfdom also began slowly to recede. Popery and Priestcraft assumed the rôle of these Barons, changed the slogan from brute force (reserving that for emergencies) to “Divine Prerogative,” “Infallibility” (later), and pagan mummeries in the name of “Religion.”
The result, to the common people, remained unchanged to the present day—poverty, ignorance, and oppression.
Popery boasts that it never changes, never relents, nor forgives an enemy, nor forgets an injury, nor fails to “get even,” like any brute, whenever she can. And this Power is not only the assumed custodian of the religion of Jesus, but stands in the place of it, as a substitute, and the world tolerates it in the name of Religion!
As a problem in Psychology, we have been considering the nature, use, and measure of values of the resources, faculties, capacities, and powers of man as an Individual Intelligence.
Facing opportunities, we have seen that there is a Law of Use and Responsibility which cannot be evaded.
Institutions and societies of men are, one and all, from first to last, under the same law. It is simply an aggregate, into which not a new principle enters, nor one principle is changed. The recognized and scientifically determined value of man to himself, is the measure of his value to the State.
The reverse proposition is equally true.
The value of any Institution to the individual, or to the State, must be measured and determined in the same way and under the same law.