The Destiny of Man. $3 



free exchange were very slowly recog- 

 nized, it is not the less true that the be- 

 ginnings of agriculture and commerce 

 marked the beginnings of the greatest 

 social revolution in the whole career 

 of mankind. Henceforth the conditions 

 for the maintenance of physical life be- 

 came different from what they had been 

 throughout the past history of the animal 

 world. It was no longer necessary for 

 men to quarrel for their food like dogs 

 over a bone ; for they could now obtain it 

 far more effectively by applying their 

 intelligence to the task of utilizing the 

 forces of inanimate nature ; and the due 

 execution of such a task was in no wise 

 assisted by wrath and contention, but 

 from the outset was rather hindered by 

 such things. 



Such were the beginnings of industrial 

 civilization. Out of its exigencies, con- 

 tinually increasing in complexity, have 

 proceeded, directly or indirectly, the arts 

 and sciences which have given to modern 



