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moral condition, are, we may easily believe, most un- 

 happy. They are generally divided into tribes, which 

 are mutually hostile, or friendly only with the view of 

 injuring sorne other tribe. Might is their law, and rob- 

 bery, rapine and murder express their mutual relations. 

 This is the history of the lowest grade of barbarism, 

 and the history of primeval man so far as it has come 

 down to us in sacred and profane records. Man as a 

 species first appears in history as a sinful being. Then 

 a race maintaining a contest with the prevailing corrup- 

 tion and exhibiting a higher moral ideal is presented to 

 us in Jewish history. Finally, early Christian society 

 exhibits a greatly superior condition of things. In it 

 polygamy scarcely existed, and slavery and war were 

 condemned. But progress did not end here, for our 

 Lord said, " I have yet many things to say unto you, 

 but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when He, the 

 spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth." 

 The progress revealed to us by history is truly great, 

 and if a similar difference existed between the first of 

 the human species and the first of whose condition we 

 have information, we can conceive how low the origin 

 must have been. History begins with a considerable 

 progress in civilization, and from this we must infer a 

 long preceding period of human existence, such as a 

 gradual evolution would require. 



y. Rationale of Moral Development. 



I. Of the Species. Let us now look at the moral con- 

 dition of the infant man of the present time. We know 

 his small accountability, his trust, his .innocence. We 

 know that he is free from the law that when he " would 



