Excerpt from Report of the Meetings of the Congress of the Advanced Minds of the World: Held in St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre, and in the Literary and Scientific Institution, John Street, Fitzroy Square, London, From the 12th to the 25th of May, 1857 United, you wield a power beyond the means of calculation, to immediately benefit the population of the world, and to hasten that period when all shall be well instructed in the most useful knowledge shall have their characters hysical, intellectual, moral, Spiritual, and practical, well-formed for them from birth; shall have the most valuable wealth abundantly created and distributed most advantageously for all; when the human race shall be, by the attractive quali ties given to each, united as brothers and sisters of one good and enlightened family; and when all shall enjoy a high degree of substantial happiness, by all doing at all times the will of the Great Creating Power of the Universe, by acting in accordance with the unchanging laws given from the beginning to humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.