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tific conclusion of Anthropology is that more and more a better 

 civilization of the world, despite all its survivals of savagery and 

 barbarism, is developing men and women on whom the declara- 

 tions of the nobler Psalms, of Isaiah, of Micah, the Sermon on the 

 Mount, the first great commandment, and the second, which is 

 like unto it, and St. James's definition of " pure religion and 

 undefiled," can take stronger hold for the more effective and 

 more rapid uplifting of our race.* 



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BARRIER BEACHES OF THE ATLANTIC COAST. 



By FREDERICK J. H. MERRILL, Ph. D. 



FROM Cape Cod to Cape Florida, our coast is fringed with 

 barrier beaches. They are the reefs of sand which protect 

 the mainland shore from the storm-waves of the ocean. Isolated 

 and uninhabited were most of these sea-born barriers for a long 

 period in the history of our country, but the need of a breathing- 

 place on the part of the thousands who inhabit our crowded 

 cities has caused, within a few years, a great transformation. 

 Railroad and turnpike bridges have been built, connecting many 

 of them with the shore. Hotels and cottages, club-houses and 

 bathing-houses, in short, buildings for every purpose which con- 

 tributes to the pleasure and comfort of man have sprung up, as 

 it were by magic, on the south shore of Long Island, on the coast 



*For the resolution of the Presbyterian Synod bf Mississippi in 1857, see Prof. Wood- 

 row's speech before the Synod of South Carolina, October 27 and 28, 1884, p. 6. As to 

 the action of the Board of Directors of the Theological Seminary of Columbia, see ibid. As 

 to the minority report in the Synod of South Carolina, see ibid., p. 24. For the pithy sen- 

 tences regarding the conduct of the majority in the synods toward Dr. Woodrow, see the 

 Rev. Mr. Flinn's article in the Southern Presbyterian Review for April, 1885, p. 272 and 

 elsewhere. For the restrictions regarding the teaching of the Copernican theory and the 

 true doctrine of comets in the German University, see various histories of astronomy, es- 

 pecially Madler. For the immaculate oath (Immaculaten Eid) as enforced upon the Aus- 

 trian professors, see Luftkandl, Die Josephineschen Ideen. For the effort of the Church in 

 France, after the restoration of the Bourbons, to teach a history of that country from which 

 the name of Napoleon should be left out, see Father Loriquet's famous Histoire de France 

 a l'Usage de la Jeunesse, Lyon, 1820, vol. ii; see especially table of contents at the end. 

 The book bears on its title-page the well-known initials of the Jesuit motto A. M. D. G. 

 (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam). For examples in England and Scotland, see various English 

 histories, and especially Buckle's chapters on Scotland. For a longer collection of exam- 

 ples showing the suppression of anything like unfettered thought upon scientific subjects 

 in our American colleges, see Inaugural Address at the Opening of Cornell University by 

 the author of these chapters. For the citation regarding the evolution of better and nobler 

 ideas of God, see Church and Creed : Sermons preached in the Chapel of the Foundling 

 Hospital, London, by A. W. Momerie, M. A., LL. D., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics 

 in King's College, London, London, 1890. 



