# The changing world, and lectures to theosophical students. Fifteen lectures delivered in London during May, June, and July, 1909

Author: Besant, Annie, 1847-1933

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57667

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## Summary

Friends: if you stand on the seashore when the tide is flowing inwards, and if you watch the waves as they ripple up, one after another, each coming a little further than its predecessor, each in turn breaking and making way for its follower—in the inflowing tide you have a picture of the evolving races of mankind. And if you watch the method of the flow, you will notice that that which is the most prominent at the moment is not the one which creeps furthest up the sands. The wave which is breaking into foam, which is rippling over the pebbles, which throws up the broken water, which falls back on to the land and makes music, sound, melody as it breaks—that is the wave which is nearly ove...

## Chapters

- [Part I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-changing-world-and-lectures-to-theosophical-students-fiftee-026100aa/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-changing-world-and-lectures-to-theosophical-students-fiftee-026100aa/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-changing-world-and-lectures-to-theosophical-students-fiftee-026100aa/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-changing-world-and-lectures-to-theosophical-students-fiftee-026100aa/chapters/2/index.md)