WILL THERE BE AN ANIMAL SUPERIOR TO MAN? 379 



sumption that the Author of Nature regards his work as 

 completed. The universal belief of the Christian world, 

 therefore, that the termination of the existence of the hu- 

 man race will mark the consummation of the history of 

 the present order of things, seems to be founded equally 

 in our mental constitution and in the philosophy of the 

 material creation. 



