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and the volume closes with a review of the various subjects of 

 ethnographical interest, suggested by the contemplation of man 

 under various circumstances, as the chief inhabitant and modifying 

 agent on the earth. With regard to this subject we cannot how- 

 ever do better than quote the concluding words of our author, 

 where he observes that " while laws, whose mode of operation and 

 whose nature may be in some measure known, govern the phy- 

 sical world, other laws of a different kind and far less manifest, 

 regulate the phenomena of life in the organic world, and more 

 especially with respect to the human race, so varied in aspect, 

 endowed with such creative power, and gifted with the faculty of 

 speech. A physical survey of natural phenomena indicates thus 

 the verge of another and a higher condition, but it merely indi- 

 cates it, and there at once stops." — p. 386. 



D. T. A. 



