What is there, then, in the larger or collective man, in the arrangements of human society here on earth, that foreshadows the trinal order of the angelic heavens? If we look at bodies of people, such as kingdoms, states, towns, or smaller companies organized for the performance of some special use, what do we see? In the most advanced civilization (for it is here that we are to look for the fullest development and best illustration of biological laws) we see in all these organized bodies, three distinct classes operating in as many distinct, spheres, and requiring, for the due performance of their respective duties, different kinds of knowledge, or different orders of natural truth, yet all working together simultaneously, the will and wisdom of each uniting with that of the others in the final result. These three classes are the principals, the agents, and the operatives. The principals are in the thought of ends. They have the direction, decide what shall be done, and set the others to doing it. Thus they represent the head, and afford an illustration of the third or highest heaven whose denizens are in ends, or in the thought of ends. The agents are in the thought of means or causes. They know how the intention of the principals is to be executed. They know what to do, and how to do it, in order that the end aimed at may be accomplished. Thus they represent the trunk, and afford an illustration of the middle heaven whose denizens are said to be in causes, or the thought of causes. And the operatives are in the thought of effects. Their knowledge is more limited than that of the others—limited to doing, or knowing how to do, what their superiors direct. They are mere obediences
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