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or acquisitions which has not sprung from be- 

 ginnings evidently stamped with the unmistakable 

 character of human invention, but of which all 

 record is lost. 



Civilisation, in its highest and most comprehensive 

 sense, is the united accumulation of all Science, of 

 all Art, of all the mechanical inventions, of all 

 useful trades, of every part of knowledge which have 

 been handed down to us. It is the sum total of 

 that vast inheritance of acquirements of every 

 description which has been bequeathed to us by all 

 past generations of men. 



This illustration, drawn from the ' Warrior,' leads 

 us to the conclusion, that the whole history of Man 

 forms one scheme, and that it is one of the designs 

 of the Creator. Each part is linked to every other, 

 and the whole forms one consistent and continued 

 plan. Under this aspect, Man may be considered as 

 a unity, as an individual, as a single chain, consisting 

 of innumerable links. It is unfortunate that the 

 present state of Geological Science does not afford 

 us the means of arriving, even approximately, at the 

 commencement of that period when Man first 

 appeared upon the globe. The earlier Geologists 

 seem to have fixed this at a comparatively recent 



