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This is the trinity revealed in the progress of the church.
These three are one, the physical, intellectual, and moral departments of nature, which are inseparable, and yet distinct in their character. Under the law, all was pomp, outward symbols, promises, of long life and prosperity, to obedience; and glory consisted in enslaving other nations and aggrandizing themselves. There was no scientific development of mind in this first stage. In the gospel, or second stage of the triad, the intellect comes into operation; but as the moral department is not yet revealed the labours of intellect are the fruitful source of spiritual division; and these, reacting upon the physical, create political strife and dreadful confusion. In the third stage morality appears, and finishes the threefold progress by a social union of the properties of nature; and the consequence is harmony and fraternal love: men unite their interests together, and national and individual competition is at an end.
The first, or physical, is brute force, a male department, as it corresponds to the character of the male. The second, or intellectual, is also male, as it is active, laborious, and contentious. The third, or moral, is female, inasmuch as refinement or polish is the distinguishing character of woman. Hence the doctrine of the "free woman," to introduce the third dispensation. As, however, her office is not either physical or intellectual warfare, but merely moral discipline, she can only act under the protection of the male, whose office it is to break down both the old physical and the old spiritual dynasty. Woman alone can establish the new. Man is her pioneer. Thus the Scriptures speak of the appearance of the bride in the last days. The woman is last formed, for she is man refined and moralized.
These are only a few general outlines of the science of "Progress." As a whole, the science is sublime and thoroughly demonstrative; but, as it is new,
