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THE RISE OF MAN. 



It is a wrong historical view to imagine that the Ro- 

 mans conquered the world because they were shrewder, 

 stronger, and more ferocious than their neighbors. They 



THE SICK MONKEY. (By Landseer.) 



conquered the world because they possessed in addition to 

 strength a rare moral quality the quality of justice. 

 With regard to their exercise of justice, indeed, they were 



