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cultivation of truth alone is sufficient for the good man."* 

 That which is truest cannot be evil, because it is in the eternal 

 order of nature. 



Thus,, free from fetters, and obeying pure reason, resting 

 on all the sciences which can assist it, anatomy, physiology, 

 psychology, and philology, the science of mankind will advance, 

 like every other science, towards the conquest of that truth 

 which is so much to be desired ; and sooner or later, by means 

 of archaeology and palaeontology, retracing its steps in the past 

 beyond history itself, and beyond the remotest geological epochs 

 of which we have any record, science will eventually discover 

 the grand problem of the origin of mankind, if the elements 

 themselves are not for ever engulphed in the depths of the 

 ocean. 



* " Boni viri nullam oportet esse causam prseter veritatem." 

 f [Yes, but the difficulty is to determine if it is true. We cannot receive 

 anything as true merely because a savant says it is so. We must go on en- 

 quiring in a proper spirit ; but we must not put inquiry after truth in the 

 same category with scepticism, " that cheerlessness of soul to which cer- 

 tainty respecting anything and everything here on earth seems unattainable." 

 This is the age for seeking after truth ; but in how many different ways do 

 men endeavour to attain to it ! We must search the past carefully in all its 

 scientific and natural facts, and as Longfellow beautifully says, 



" Nor deem the irrevocable past, 



As wholly wasted, wholly vain, 

 If, rising on its wrecks, at last 

 To something nobler we attain." 



This is the true aim of all inquiry. EDITOR.] 



FINIS. 



