THE SLAVERY OF MAN. 5 1 1 



west. This then is the reason that the English race 

 in America is more happy, more enlightened, and more 

 thriving, than it is in the mother-land. Politically 

 speaking, the emigrant gains nothing ; he is as free in 

 England as he is in America; but he leaves a land 

 where labour is depreciated, and goes to a land where 

 labour is in demand. That England may become as 

 prosperous as America, it must be placed under Ame- 

 rican conditions ; that is to say, food must be cheap, 

 labour must be dear, emigration must be easy. It is 

 not by universal suffrage, it is not by any act of parlia- 

 ment that these conditions can be created. It is 

 Science alone which can Americanize England ; it is 

 Science alone which can ameliorate the condition of 

 the human race. 



When Man first wandered in the dark forest, he 

 was Nature's serf; he offered tribute and prayer to 

 the winds, and the lightning, and the rain, to the 

 cave-lion, which seized his burrow for its lair, to the 

 mammoth, which devoured his scanty crops. But as 

 time passed on, he ventured to rebel ; he made stone 

 his servant ; he discovered fire and vegetable poison ; 

 he domesticated iron ; he slew the wild beasts or 

 subdued them ; he made them feed him and give 

 him clothes. He became a chief surrounded by his 

 slaves ; the fire lay beside him with dull red eye and 

 yellow tongue waiting his instructions to prepare his 

 dinner, or to make him poison, or to go with him to 

 the war, and fly on the houses of the enemy, hissing, 

 roaring, and consuming all. The trees of the forest 

 were his flock, he slaughtered them at his convenience ; 

 the earth brought forth at his command. He struck 

 iron upon wood or stone and hewed out the fancies of 



