2o6 NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. 



purer in feoling, more powerful in device and act, 

 and who shall take a rule over us ! There is in this 

 nothing improbable on other grounds. The present 

 race, lude and impulsive as it is, is perhaps the best 

 adapted to the present state of things in the world; 

 but the external woi'ld goes through slow and gradual 

 changes, which may leave it in time a much serener field 

 of existence. There may then be occasion for a nobler 

 type of humanity, which shall complete the zoological 

 circle on this planet, and realise some of the dreams 

 of the purest spirits of the present race. 



