64 Actual Races in History. 



tific verification, a fact which one record distinctly 

 testifies to, and which many other lines of tradi- 

 tional and documentary evidence are converging 

 to; that once there occurred a violent breaking-up 

 of the human family, a catastrophe in the social 

 order, well known to us in the Mosaic narrative as 

 Babel. 



69. Besides language, and other manifestations 

 of intellect, there are identical moral characters 



which are wanting in no human race. 



Conscience is there, with its rewards 

 and its remorse, its hopes and its fears, the same 

 that have inspired the white-robed army of heroes 

 and martyrs, the heroes in thought and action, the 

 martyrs to honor or to truth. 



70. Here, too, we have been rudely awakened to 

 the fact that the moral problem contained in the 

 beautiful sentiments of conscience has been solved 

 by that intrusive species of modern science, as with 

 the touch of a master. An eminent observer points 

 to his dog, in the act of refraining from eating its 

 master's dinner, when it might. See, says the mas- 

 ter, there is the moral sentiment, in its first stage of 

 evolution — conscience in embryo! Such is the ex- 

 planation vouchsafed us for the moral order and its 

 origin; and it is an explanation, we must confess, 

 which suggests pregnant reflections. They be- 

 come more fertile still, upon the further statement 

 being contributed to the question, that the dog looks 

 up to its master as its god! A compliment, indeed! 



