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Schematic illustration of the cerebral increase by the different classes of 

 vertebrates, projected in snpraposition : ol, olfactory lobe ; cr, cerebrum ; 

 op, corpus callosum or median sphere ; mettsch, man ; saugethier, mam- 

 mal ; vogel, bird. (The mediaji sphere progresses in evolution in com- 

 plexity of structure and increasing number of component elements. 



Satiated (as we now are, almost) by the daily recurrent gifts 

 of in-ventivp genius, and influx of material riches, we stand 

 listening on the shore of time, and watching, for ear and eye 

 perceive a new swell and the distant rumble of another wave, 

 the first ripples of which indicate its idealistic nature, and in- 

 ' dicate the demandsof the era of the twentieth century. 



The peace conference at The Hague, the parliaments of re- 

 ligion, the societies for ethical culture, have initiated these 

 movements : Universality and unity of religious sentiment, 

 that cannot be dismembered by comrnanding. dogmas ; pacifi- 

 cation of the conflict between capital and labor by legally 

 limiting the aggressiveness of either;, defining on statistical 

 estimates the share of labor in the net profits ; a stronger gov- 

 ernment with relinquishment of the policy of leniency and hes- 

 itation which only serves to embolden violent and obstreper- 

 ous characters, and encourages them to deeds such as have 

 now cast the wfiole nation in grief and distress ; the remotest 

 of the Aleutian Islands to be chosen as a place of exile for dan- 

 gerous criminals; deliverance of the educational system from 

 ecclesiastic supervision, and the organization of its administra- 

 tion intrusted to a commission,, selected from the professors 

 and lecturers in the universities, technical schools, and art 

 schools, with authority to make appointments and designate 



