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Schematic illustration of the cerebral increase by the different classes of 

 vertebrates, projected in supraposition : ol, olfactory lobe ; cr, cerebrum ; 

 op, corpus callosum or median sphere ; mensch, man ; sai'igethier, mam- 

 mal ; vogel, bird. (The median sphere progresses in evolution in com- 

 plexity of structure and increasing number of component elements. 



Satiated (as we now are, almost) by the daily recurrent gifts 

 of inventive genius, and influx of material riches, we stand 

 listening on the shore of time, and watching, for ear and eye 

 perceive a new swell and the distant rumble of another wave, 

 the first ripples of which indicate its idealistic nature, and in- 

 dicate the demands of the era of the twentieth century. 



The peace conference at The Hague, the parliaments of re- 

 ligion, the societies for ethical culture, have initiated these 

 movements : Universality and unity of religious sentiment, 

 that cannot be dismembered by commanding dogmas; pacifi- 

 cation of the conflict between capital and labor by legally 

 limiting the aggressiveness of either; defining on statistical 

 estimates the share of labor in the net profits ; a stronger gov- 

 ernment with relinquishment of the policy of leniency and hes- 

 itation which only serves to embolden violent and obstreper- 

 ous characters, and encourages them to deeds such as have 

 now cast the whole nation in grief and distress ; the remotest 

 of the Aleutian Islands to be chosen as a place of exile for dan- 

 gerous criminals ; deliverance of the educational system from 

 ecclesiastic supervision, and the organization of its administra- 

 tion intrusted to a commission, selected from the professors 

 and lecturers in the universities, technical schools, and art 

 schools, wn'th authority to make appointments and designate 



