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doing .away with race prejudice, and we can see 

 a united mankind advancing to higher and higher 

 planes. Thus it is that the intelligence, conscience, 

 and social habits of man, and above all his approxi- 

 mation toward the law of Christ, have produced a 

 new era in the history of life, and, as a result, the 

 development of mankind in the future is not to run 

 parallel to the development of animals in the past. 

 No longer are we to find a divergence and produc- 

 tion of numerous species of animals or even numer- 

 ous species of intelligence. There is to be one 

 human race, a race of marvellous complexity, ad- 

 vancing to higher and higher planes. Mankind is 

 to remain a unit, and so long as his chief character 

 is the development of his intellect, he will still con- 

 tinue to be man, whatever be the changes that the 

 future may see either in his physical or mental 

 attributes. 



Each Type a Master of the Preceding. 



Before leaving this sketch on the outline of history, 

 there are several other points of general interest to 

 be mentioned. First we must notice that in all of 

 this history the predominant animal type of any age 

 is, as a rule, more than master for all of the animals 

 that have preceded it. With their hard shells the 

 mollusks have no fear of the lower animals. The 

 activity of the articulates makes them more than a 

 match for the mollusks or other lower animals. The 

 vertebrates are always superior to the invertebrates, 

 and so, as a rule, the amphibians, reptiles, birds, and 

 mammals are seen in turn possessed of powers that 



