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LECTUEE II. 



THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY. 



1. We now proceed, guided by the principles involved in 

 my last lecture, to examine the conditions of human life, and to 

 inquire into the question as to the essence of humanity, so 

 as to attain a basis for the discussion of the subject of this 

 course. 



2. As in the animal, so in man ; his entire economy must 

 be co-ordinate with his area — or, as we must term it in his 

 case, sphere of action. 



3. Man has not been created for any area of a given geo- 

 logical, climatal, or phyto-zoological character. He inhabits 

 the entire globe. 



4. From the principles on which we proceed, it is evident 

 that the extension of man over the globe has been provided 

 for in the superiority of his psychical, and consequently of his 

 corporeal, endowments. 



5. It is also evident, that as the animal is so constituted, 

 psychically and corporeally, as to be capable, not only of sus- 

 taining its own life and of propagating its species, but also of 

 acting efficiently, and without failure, in promoting the de- 

 velopment of the area which it inhabits; man must in like 

 manner be bo endowed, psychically and corporeally, as to en- 

 able him n<>t only 1<> sustain himself and propagate his kind 

 in all parts of the globe, bul also to act towards the develop 

 men! and improvemeni of the entire surface of the earth, in a 

 manner and to an extent, co-ordinate with bis endowments. 



6. Tradition, History, and Revelation, the three sources 



