HEREDITARY DESCENT IN ANCIENT GREECE. 25 



these summits in Attica, in Germany, in France, in 

 England, a meek, soft, overawing dawn splendor, 

 prophetic of new eras. We think we stand already 

 upon the heights of illumination concerning natural 

 law. There is a day beneath the horizon, and only 

 its faintest upstretching auroras are yet visible in 

 the present human knowledge and observance of the 

 laws of hereditary descent. [Applause.] 



