23S NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. 



tecture, sculpture, and all the arts and sciences, will again 

 shine out in all their glory. Twice within the records of 

 history has the human race traversed the great circle of 

 its entire destiny, and twice has the rudeness of bar- 

 barism been followed by a higher degree of refinement. 

 It is a great mistake to suppose one people to have pro- 

 ceeded from another on account of their conformity of 

 manners, customs, and arts. The swallow of Paris builds 

 its nest like the swallow of Vienna, but does it thence 

 follow that the former sprung from the latter? With 

 th^ same causes we have the same efi'ects ; with the same 

 organisation we have the manifestation of the same 

 powers." 



