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nothing ethnologically at variance between those who 

 reared the heathen temples of the East and those who 

 erected the Gothic cathedrals of Western Europe'? 

 Was there no difference of power in the eye of the 

 Egyptians and the eye of the Ancient Greeks to judge 

 of beauty and proportion in sculpture ? Is there no 

 difference between the eye of the Mongol and the eye 

 of the European in their respective capacities for per- 

 spective ? As there are undeniably immense differences 

 between existing races, and as some of these differ- 

 ences have been evolved even within the historic era, 

 so we may rely on analogous developments in the 

 future, and agree with Professor Owen that, " seeing 

 the greater variety of influences to which man is sub- 

 ject, the present characters of the human kind are 

 likely to be sooner changed than those of lower 

 existing species."* If there can be no material pro- 

 gress in the future, how shall we account for the 

 material differences that exist ? If there is to be only 

 intellectual and moral development, how shall we 

 explain the fact that the higher attributes of mind 

 have never manifested themselves unless coincidently 

 with the rise and progress of newer and higher races 1 

 As physical and mental endowments have ever been 



* Comparative Arwicmy and Physiology of the Vertebrata. — 

 Introduction. 



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