The Man of the Future. 8 1 



polity; and the Roman empire, many nations into 

 the concentrated majesty of the Ro- 

 man peace; so the simple unfolding of theFuture 

 one Providential design, in the great 

 world at large, is bringing about the final fusion of 

 all peoples in the grandeur of a more exalted uni- 

 ty; and, if leavened with Christian virtue, of a 

 deeper and more sublime peace. It will be more 

 strong than that of the Romans, more intellectual 

 than that of the Greeks. It will exhibit every 

 tribe and people and nation under heaven, coming 

 back to the reunion of the family, with the marks and 

 scars perhaps of many aweary wandering and bitter 

 conflict in the past, but also with the personal shades 

 and forms, as well as the social qualities and beau- 

 ties, developed by every soil and climate, and un- 

 folded by the side of every flowing water, or in 

 the bath of every limpid air which breathes under 

 God's azure sky. They bring back into the com- 

 mon fund of our original nature a positive contribu- 

 tion of their own; and that is the second nature of 

 their acquirements, of their characteristics and en- 

 dowments, which they have travelled the whole 

 world to make their own in the past, and which 

 they leave as a heritage to the man of the future. 

 Every thing which they thus made their own in 

 youth, they cannot but retain in their old age. 

 Fifty years in the vigor and susceptibility of our 

 family's early life could suffice to develop, and that 

 to its maximum effect, what fifty generations sub- 



