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any rate ihvw lias hem prouros in < oiiuliiicss iitid inii'rovc- 

 ment in ivli^Mon. 



At first, cju-h individual tliini: was tli(.uudit to he ensouled. 

 A little after there wore ^host-ixods, which ini^ht he iuflii- 

 eneed hy fetishes or incantations. W<»rshii.of thing's, places, 

 animals, and ))lants follow in (|ui(k succession. Another 

 step hrinjLTs us to the deification of the powers of nature, 

 under symbols, barbarous or chaste according' to the taste ol 

 a people, which constitute the world's idolatries. 



How ])leasantly we mi*jjht s|»end hours tracing; through 

 its mazy windings the conception of personal causation, 

 from the gross forms of savage philosophy to that grand 

 idea which traces all creative power and providential con- 

 trol to majestic law, "that has its seat in the bosom of God, 

 and its voice is the harmony of the universe." With Major 

 Powell. Mr. Gushing, Mr. Dorsey, and Mr. Ilinman, we 

 should sit down at the Indian's hearthstone and hear in 

 their simple myths echoes of the cliildhood of the world. 

 With Professor Ander.son we shouM visit the i)risean home 

 of the Anglo-Saxon race, and recline under tlu- shadow of 

 the tree Ygdrasil, at the feast of Tuisco and Wo<len, Thor 

 'and Fria. Our survey could not omit Chalda^a, Assyria, 

 Persia, India, China, or Egypt. Much more, the gods, the 

 myths, the sculptured forms and world-surpassing temple 

 architecture of Greece, and the i>ure monotheism, exalted 

 poetry, and pathetic history of Judiea would engro.ss our 

 serious thoiights. Rising above all, yet not contemptuous 

 of any, at last would shine refulgent that undeliled Chris- 

 tianity which declares the fatherhood of (Jod an<l the uni- 

 versal brotherhood of niaii. 



X. — Ilc.riitlit;/!/. 



We come at last to sjieak of that chapti'r in anthropology 

 which treats of the recii>rocal actions of man and his en- 

 vironment. In every thing that comes to be what it is. 

 there are two sets of forces at work, the internal and the 

 external, the constructive and the destructive, the impell- 



