X Preface to the English Edition. 



feeling of pride and delight that he can look upon himself as 

 belonging to a race, to whom seems to have been reserved 

 the diffusion of a New Life over the earth — whose special 

 mission it appears to be to make even the most primitive 

 tribes in the remotest corner of the world acquainted 

 with the blessings of Christian civilization, of political 

 liberty, of intellectual culture, and, standing triumphant on 

 the ruins of slavery and despotism, to proclaim to the great 

 family of universal mankind, the advent of a new, a vernal 

 era of Faith, Freedom, and Happiness ! 



Dr. Karl Scherzer. 



Trieste, \%th March, 1861. 



