Every man has to become a perfect man, to unfold to the fullest degree the divine possibilities which lie latent within him, for that unfoldment is the object of the entire scheme so far as he is concerned.

This law of evolution steadily presses him onward to higher and higher achievements.

The wise man tries to anticipate its demands--to run ahead of the necessary curriculum, for in that way he not only avoids all collision with it, but he obtains the maximum of assistance from its action.

The man who lags behind in the race of life finds its steady pressure constantly constraining him--a pressure which, if resisted, rapidly becomes painful.

Thus the laggard on the path of evolution has always the sense of being hunted and driven by his fate, while the man who intelligently co-operates is left perfectly free to choose the direction in which he shall move, so long as it is onward and upward.
The second great law under which this evolution is taking place is the law of cause and effect.