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quent migrations, had something besides nature to 

 confront. They had their fellow-man to meet. 

 He had walked that way before, and he had settled 

 down on what he had so dearly bought and now 

 considered his own. Every form of selfish nar- 

 rowness, local, provincial, national, barbarous or 

 civilized, arrayed itself on the wrinkled front of 

 grim-visaged war to withstand the invaders. Thus 

 it came to pass, that, while the conditions of accli- 

 matization remained the same for the subsequent 

 migrating sections of the family, the colonizing 

 movement became much more embarrassed. The 

 story of its progress, whether historic or prehis- 

 toric, is war. The only true enemy of man has 

 been man. 



88. Yet if, under the aspect of political relation- 

 ship and the mutual adjustment of boundaries mine 

 and thine, contact between man and 



Sociability man ^ as ^ ssue( ^ as a ru ^ e m warlike strife, 

 throwing them back from one another in 

 the shock of battle; under another aspect, that of 

 anthropology, the same contact has for the most 

 part resulted in quite the contrary effect. Man's 

 conquering instincts, however brutal or ambitious, 

 have never prevailed entirely over his social in- 

 stincts, whether these latter were just as natural and 

 brutal as the former, or as supernatural and refined 

 as Christianity has made them. By the refinement 

 of Christianity, I mean such a state of social virtue 

 as the Rev. R. L. Everett, an English clergyman, 



