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highest point of productiveness. The first impulse in 

 these directions must have been given by great minds 

 in pre-historic times probably by minds which, if 

 contemporary, were violently antagonistic to each 

 other, and may have rent asunder the old primitive 

 patriarchal communism by their struggles. Out of 

 this Babel God has worked His own plans, giving to 

 the Semitic culture the higher revelations of His 

 spiritual nature, and to the Japetic culture the higher 

 control of physical forces and the greater power of 

 expansion and of propagandism ; while among the 

 Turanians, the old primitive instincts and habits of 

 pre-historic men have crystallized themselves into 

 fossils, or have been weathered away and disintegrated 

 into barbarism. tf God shall enlarge Japhet, and he 

 shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Canaan " (the 

 representative here of unprogressive humanity) " shall 

 be his servant." 



We are now prepared to give, by the help of our 

 American analogies, a common-sense answer to the 

 much-agitated question of the primitive barbarism of 

 man and the origin of civilization. Sacred history 

 and the materialistic archaeology of the day concur in 

 the belief that man at first was destitute of the arts. 

 But from this point they diverge. The former teaches 

 that man without arts was pure and holy, and in 

 unison with his Maker, and that, falling from this 

 condition, one part of mankind simply sunk into bar- 

 barism, the other grasped at arts and civilization, 

 introduced by great inventors, as a substitute for or in 



