These two lectures, delivered at the Chicago World Parliament of Religions 1893 by Annie Besant, are printed here with brief, historical comments by Joy Mills in a Preface, where she says:

'In these, we may find both practical suggestions for a mode of living consonant with Theosophical ideas and inspiration to act in such a manner as may bring about that global transformation which signals the dawning of the 'brotherhood' enunciated in the First Object of the Theosophical Society'.

Annie Besant's words strike at the very heart of the human problem: the need to realize and to live in accordance with the realization that all life is ONE.'