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and difficulties that are ever obstructing. From an 

 indication of our genetic relations we may gain new 

 insight into the Creator's methods, and discover how 

 endlessly varied the results Omniscience can elaborate 

 from the same primal elements ; while from our 

 knowledge of the community that subsists between 

 all being, we may learn to cultivate a community of 

 feeling, and to view nothing as mean and degrading 

 save that which, unmindful of its higher position, by 

 vice and criminality degrades itself. And lastly, from 

 a consideration of man's progressive relations we may 

 be led to newer and higher aspirations, not only after 

 individual attainments, but after all that can contri- 

 bute immediately or remotely to the ascension of the 

 race. A mere round of reproduction, sameness, and 

 decay, has little ennobling iu it ; an incessant onward 

 and upwards inspires with newer and higher efforts. 

 It is something to be conscious of sustaitiing well our 

 part in the present ; it is something more to feel we 

 are bequeathing our gift to the future, and living, as 

 it were, beyond the period of our own individual 

 existences. 



To those who have accompanied the author 

 through this brief review, it must now be suflSciently 

 obvious that there is nothing in the question of man's 

 Where, Whence, and Whither, that places it beyond 

 the legitimate domain of scientific inquiiy — nothing 



