That man cannot recede fiom the point he has attained is certain ; but not less 

 stire is it that his future career vrill be, like his past, one of continued piogiess 

 and transition. Beyond this, science is silent. But if there be philosophy as 

 well as history in that past, if it have a soul of meaning as well as a mere body 

 of factology, if upon the successive pages of human progress there is a heading 

 which repeats itself in characters that grow clearer and more distinct, it is one 

 that bids us look forward to that undisclosed future -n-ith confidence, and 

 with hope. 



