The Destiny of Man. 61 



magically restored, the manners and mor- 

 als, the laws and superstitions, of peoples 

 that have ceased to be. 9 And so in art the 

 wonderful printing-press, and the engine 

 that moves it, are the lineal descendants 

 through countless stages of complication, 

 of the simple levers of primitive man and 

 the rude stylus wherewith he engraved 

 strange hieroglyphs on the bark of trees. 

 In such ways, since the human phase of 

 evolution began, has the direct action of 

 muscle and sense been supplemented and 

 superseded by the indirect work of the in- 

 quisitive and inventive mind. 



