156 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



ments they are little above the average of their people. 

 The object of this comparison of the manuscripts of 

 King and Queen, is to illustrate the evolution of mind, 

 and its attributes and products, in the short time of 

 four centuries. This evolution is shown as much, in 

 what man has abandoned, as in what he has acquired. 

 The customs that he has dropped, mean an advance- 

 ment in mental habit. The change, marking the begin- 

 ning of the 20th century, in the manner in which inter- 

 national questions shall be met, means the abandon- 

 ment of war, and the resort to courts of arbitration 

 instead. These changes all occur through the principal 

 of natural selection, and the survival of the fittest. It 

 is so in the forms of government, when republics follow 

 monarchies. It is a constant readjustment, until an 

 adapted form is reached, and that may undergo modifi- 

 cations for a very long period, before a desirable form 

 shall be reached. 



