PEOGEESSIVE EELATIONS. 



Natural Tendency to be interested in the Future — Incessant 

 Change and Progress in Nature — Extinction and Creation 

 ever coincident — Higher Physical Developments — Ko Abate- 

 ment of C'osmical Forces — Intellectual and Moral Ascension 

 — Newer and Higher Varieties of Man — This Progression in 

 Obvious Operation — Effect of Geological Changes — Differ- 

 ences among Men lessened but not obliterated by Higher 

 Developments — Our Eighth Proposition. 



Having glanced at man's When, or the relations he 

 bears to the present, and having endeavoured to dis- 

 cover his Whence, or his relative antiquity and origin, 

 we are now in a position to indicate with some degree 

 of probability his Wliither, or the course that still lies 

 before him. As it is only from the order of the 

 present that we can judge of the operations of the 

 past, so it is from a knowledge of the past and 

 present, combined with the belief in nature's con- 

 tinuity, that we can form any intelligible conception 

 of that which must follow. As it is a law of our 

 nature to take an interest in that which precedes our 

 own being, so we are similarly compelled to look for- 



