bodia, Nineveh and Egypt, represent the period of 

 greatest display of architectural expenditure. The 

 same amount of human force has perhaps never been 

 expended in this direction since, though higher concep- 

 tions of beauty have been developed in architecture 

 with increasing intellectuality. 



Man has passed through the block-and-brick building 

 period of his boyhood, and should rise to higher con- 

 ceptions of what is the true disposition of power for 

 " him who builds for aye," and learn that " spectacle " 

 is often the unwilling friend of progress. 



No traces of metallic implements have ever been 

 found in the salt-mines of Armenia, the turquoise-quar- 

 ries in Arabia, the cities of Central America or the ex- 

 cavations for mica in North Carolina, while the direct 

 evidence points to the conclusion that in those places 

 flint was exclusively used. 



The simplest occupations, as requiring the least exer- 

 cise of mind, are the pursuit of the chase and the tend- 

 ing of flocks and herds. Accordingly, we find our first 

 parents engaged in these occupations. Cain, we are 

 told, was, in addition, a tiller of the ground. Agricul- 

 ture in its simplest forms requires but little more intelli- 

 gence than the pursuits just mentioned, though no em- 

 ployment is capable of higher development. If we 

 look at the savage nations at present occupying nearly 

 half the land surface of the earth, we shall find many 

 examples of the former industrial condition of our race 

 preserved to the present day. Many of them had no 

 knowledge of the use of metals until they obtained it 

 from civilized men who visited them, while their pur- 

 suits were and are those of the chase, tending domestic 

 animals, and rudimental agriculture., 



