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utilised for production or not utilised at all. It lay, 

 in a great part, waste, dormant, or, judged by the 

 standard of the present day, poorly cultivated. 



Now, equipped with the knowledge of Nature and 

 its powers that has been gained in the past century, 

 and with the resourcefulness acquired through his 

 inventions and discoveries, enormously enriched with 

 the material results of his recent energising, inspired 

 to further enterprise in exploring new fields of in- 

 vestigation and in developing old sources of wealth, 

 and filled with the hopes of a brighter future for the 

 race founded upon the evidences of social progress 

 everywhere visible, the civilised man of the present 

 day has come to be distinctly differentiated and 

 developed from his ancestor at the close of the 

 eighteenth century. Living in a new world, brought 

 under new conditions of being, he has been wrought 

 and moulded into harmony with his new moral and 

 material environment. He has attained to a greater 

 realisation of his heritage, as the Crown of Creation, 

 in the earth and its fulness. He is making its soil 

 yield in ever larger measure of its resources to con- 

 tribute to his sustenance and comfort. He is filling 

 its waste places with energetic and industrious popu- 

 lations, forcing heretofore thirsty deserts to give forth 

 streams of water, and what were formerly neglected 

 solitudes to produce bread for his support. 



In the historic past divers forms of civilisation had 

 growth in divers lands, flourished, and passed away. 

 In their seats of power, while empire and military 



