462 THE RACES OF MAN [chap. xl. 



ill a state of barbarism* And if we continue to devote 

 our chief energies to the utilizing of our knowledge 

 of the laws of nature with the view of still further 

 extending our commerce and our wealth, the evils which 

 necessarily accompany these when too eagerly pursued, 

 may increase to such gigantic dimensions as to be beyond 

 our power to alleviate. 



We should now clearly recognise the fact, that the 

 wealth and knowledge and culture of the few do not con- 

 stitute civilization, and do not of themselves advance us 

 towards the " perfect social state." Our vast manufacturing 

 system, our gigantic commerce, our crowded towns and 

 cities, support and continually renew a mass of human 

 misery and crime ahsolutely greater than has ever existed 

 before. They create and maintain in life-long labour an 

 ever-increasing army, whose lot is the more hard to bear, 

 by contrast with the pleasures, the comforts, and the luxury 

 which they see everywhere around them, but which they 

 can never hope to enjoy; and who, in this respect, are 

 worse off than the savage in the midst of his tribe. 



This is not a result to boast of, or to be satisfied with ; 

 and, until there is a more general recognition of this failure 

 of our civilization — resiilting mainly from our neglect to 

 train and develop more thoroughly the sympathetic feel- 

 ings and moral faculties of our nature, and to allow them 



* See note next page. 



