122 Progress and Civilisation. PT. m. 



how much of Science is comprised in that art of 

 Navigation, which has been slowly reaching its 

 present advanced stage through centuries of Progress? 

 The groundwork of Navigation is the Science of 

 Astronomy; the spheroidal form of the Earth, its 

 annual and diurnal motions, the declination of the 

 Sun, the relative position of the Moon, the apparent 

 angles with the fixed Stars, all are essential compo- 

 nent parts of that Science of Navigation so necessary 

 to the direction of the Vessel. 



' I have selected the 4 Warrior ' as a convenient 

 example of the truth of my assertion that Civilisa- 

 tion cannot be dated from any known epoch, but 

 that it is the gradual development of the faculties 

 originally implanted in our nature by its Divine 

 Author. There is an advantage in choosing this 

 example, because a vessel like the ' Warrior ' stands 

 singly. It is a creation in itself. The elements in 

 its formation are thus more easily traced, and more 

 distinctly marked than in more complicated results 

 of the intellectual powers of Man. But every 

 department of Knowledge, or Science, every work of 

 human hands, would afford, if subjected to scrutiny 

 and analysis, similar results. In all it would be 

 manifest that there is no branch of our acquirements 



