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tion to these relationships. Some have placed man 

 in a world of their own creation, that does not cor- 

 respond to the world of reality. Others have studied 

 him from a single stand point, in physical science. 

 Others, still, have ignored the truly animal nature, 

 which is the agency through which man works, and 

 by which he may be controlled. 



The result of all such partial study of his nature, 

 has been unfortunate, — unfortunate for science, but 

 more unfortunate in its influence on the social, in- 

 tellectual, and moral progress of the race. 



All the problems that relate to man will not be 

 settled by the present generation, nor within the 

 coming century. We are only in the infancy of 

 those sciences, which are to fully reveal to us man's 

 nature, and the best conditions of his physical, so- 

 cial, and moral development. Thousands of mis- 

 takes will be made in PoHtics, Religion, and Edu- 

 cation in all its branches, before our schools will 

 present to us a course of study and discipline that 

 will be what the best good of the world demands. 

 Our railroads, telegraphs, and other inventions and 

 discoveries, will be perfected long before a perfect, or 

 even tolerable, system of education and form of gov- 

 ernment, will be agreed upon by all men, even when 

 they have the same society to provide for. What 

 can we do in such a chaos of opinion ? Little more 

 than to understand that there is chaos, and govern 

 ourselves accordingly. Instead of ruthlessly pulling 

 down what has been done, before our time, simply 

 because there is clamor for change, let it stand till 

 its uselessness or injury is clearly seen, — it will do 



