82 THE COMING OF MAN 



coal-fields. They will regard with some wonder and pity the 

 crudeness of our laws and institutions. They will smile at 

 our systems of science and philsophy, as we smile at those of 

 past centuries. They will ask: '' What permanent contri- 

 bution did your age and nation make to human life and prog- 

 ress, and to the development of a higher and better per- 

 sonality and humanity? " Our answer to this question will 

 fix our place in history. By it we shall be judged, and justi- 

 fied or condemned. Shall we be remembered with little Judea 

 and Greece or be forgotten gladly like great Assyria and other 

 exploiters? 



