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ests. What Christianity has long been doing by 

 the formation of a universal Christendom, with an 

 elevation of thought and morality, which makes 

 all alike to be children of one father and brethren 

 of one another, the parallel process of opening up 

 the resources of nature for the service of men has 

 been doing for their physical amelioration, from the 

 clearing away of the woods round the monastic 

 centres of the middle ages, as Hallam describes, to 

 " the putting of a girdle round the earth in forty 

 minutes," by the electric current of to-day. And 

 a natural reunion is being effected, after the long- 

 standing separation and dispersion of the family; 

 preluded indeed by many a partial reunion, but 

 never so complete before. — I said, on beginning 

 this survey, that anthropology supplied a view of 

 its own, supplementary to the ethical and intellect- 

 ual history of man. We see now for ourselves that 

 it supplements also the history of Christianity and 

 the supernatural development of man. 



91. While the old races will not henceforth be 

 marked so sharply, new ones cannot be formed so 

 easily. The spread of useful information enables 

 men to protect themselves more effectually against 

 the further inroads of climate. The ready facili- 

 ties of transit from one climate to another aid in 

 accomplishing the same result of self-protection 

 and immunity from further racial change. 



92. Nor are certain moral agencies wanting to 

 merge all into a close unity. In the bosom of races 



