CHAPTEE XIY. 



PROGRESS OF MAN. 



" Horskir hrafnar skolu )>er 



A' ham galga 

 Slita sjonir or, 

 Ef J>ii >at lygr." 



FJOLSVINNSMAL. 



" Not in knowledge only, but in development of powers, the child of 

 twelve now stands at the level where once stood the child of fourteen, 

 where ages ago stood the full-grown man." 



TEMPLE, On the Education of the World. 



THE history of man as a race exhibits some 

 analogy to the system of organic nature. Man 

 being geologically analogous to a Class, the sub- 

 species resemble Orders in their distribution, 

 and the Eaces, Genera. We find some nations 

 almost destitute of the element of progress, 

 and remaining in an unchanged barbarous 

 or semi-civilised condition for many ages, 

 thus resembling those organisms in which 

 modification proceeds very slowly. Some 

 nations rise to a great height of civilisation, 

 and afterwards, when their mission to the 

 world is accomplished, fall for ever, to be 



