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concomitants in the past, so we may rest assured the 

 one will accompany the other in the future. 



Look at the long historical past of the Old World 

 races — Turanian, Khamite, Semite, and Aryan. See 

 how gradually but progressively the one displaced and 

 superseded the other. More exalted iu physical form, 

 more fertile iu ideas, more complex and expressive in 

 language, less material iu religious sentiment, more 

 generous in morals, more uniform and brotherly in 

 sofcial polity, the newer ever advanced, and the older 

 and inferior ever declined. For the last five thousand 

 years the historical platforms of Central and Western 

 Asia, of Northern Africa and Europe, are replete with 

 evidence of this material, mental, and moral progression, 

 and to him who fails to comprehend the purport of 

 the past it were fruitless to endeavour to indicate the 

 course of the future. As nationality has superseded 

 nationality, and race succeeded race, so will variety 

 supersede variety, and this as a cosmical necessity, so 

 long as the existing order of nature endures and the 

 forces through which it is manifested remain unim- 

 paired. Palseontologically or historically, nature has 

 never repeated herself; and where there is no re- 

 petition there must be declension or advancement. 

 If there has not been declension — and the most stren- 

 uous opposer of these views wiU scarcely venture on 



