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that have elevated the conventional sentiments and 

 moulded into forms of greater grace the habits and 

 manners of our upper and upper-middle classes in 

 the course of the past century, will have inter- 

 penetrated to the lower strata of society, so as 

 very largely to bridge over the gulf that separates 

 the cultured gentleman to-day from the semi-savage 

 coal-heaver and bricklayer. Such change, such pro- 

 gress will appear to be inevitable, if we consider 

 the general trend of the civilising forces that are 

 everywhere marking the process of time with their 

 beneficent results. 



I believe that in the progress of science the surface 

 of the globe will increasingly become the home of 

 civilised man, from its miasmatic and pestilential 

 localities being cleansed from the malarious influences 

 that render them at present pernicious to human life. 

 Many generations are not destined to elapse before 

 the seaboard and adjacent hinterlands of Africa shall 

 have yielded up to science the secret of their fever- 

 breeding potency, and before science has discovered 

 the means of coping with it and overcoming it. May 

 we not confidently cherish the belief that the banks of 

 the Amazon and its mighty affluents will, ere another 

 century has passed, be in process of preparation to 

 receive in plains of teeming fertility the millions that 

 are destined to occupy them ? 



As man increases the more formidable ferae are 

 bound to disappear. The larger felines shall follow 

 in the wake of the mammoth and the dodo ; and 



