1 70 EVOL UTION AND NA TUEAL THKOL G Y. 



attempts at oppression or extermination. In all 

 parts of the world the lower races are giving 

 way before the higher. In Africa alone, where 

 the climate will allow of no permanent white 

 settlements, can the former hold their ground. 

 J^or, philosophically speaking, ought we to 

 regret the inevitable extinction of the lower 

 races of man. Sentimentally it may be re- 

 gretted ; and we must all reprobate the 

 treatment which barbarians too frequently 

 receive from Europeans, but we cannot over- 

 look the fact that no two men, much less 

 two widely different races, are or can be 

 relatively equal. 



It is often said that all men are equal in 

 the sight of God ; but even this can only be 

 true in the sense that all His creatures are 

 equally His children. It was in this sense that 

 Christ himself observed that although not a 

 sparrow was forgotten before God yet men are 

 of more value than many sparrows ; a very 

 suggestive remark of this profound observer 

 of man and Nature. 



Even among civilised races, we cannot ignore 

 the wide differences in mind and character 

 between the Eomano-Celtic and the Teutonic 



