And if you ignore this, if you forget it, if you forget that this splendid human temple built up by the Spirit of man through ages of toil and of suffering, to express his own higher qualities--compassion, tenderness, love, pity for the weak and the helpless, protection of the helpless against the strong--if you forget the whole of that, and act as a brute even would not act, in cruelty and wickedness to men and animals alike, you will degrade the body you are trying to preserve, you will paralyse the body you are trying to save from disease, and you will go back into the savagery which is the nemesis of cruelty, and ruin these nobler bodies, the inheritance of the civilised races.
I pass from that to my last world, the world of political thought.

Now Theosophy takes no part in party politics.

It lays down the great principle of human Brotherhood, and bids its followers go out into the world and work on it--using their intelligence, their power of thought, to judge the value of every method which is proposed.

And our general criticism on the politics of the moment would be that they are remedies, not preventions, and leave untouched the root out of which all the miseries grow.

Looking sometimes at your party politics, it seems to me as though you were as children plucking flowers and sticking them into the sand and saying: "See what a beautiful garden I have made." And when you wake the next morning the flowers are dead, for there were no roots, but only rootless flowers.