﻿I92 
  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  and 
  in 
  the 
  social 
  institutions 
  which 
  are 
  con- 
  

   nected 
  with 
  Belief. 
  

  

  The 
  truth 
  is, 
  that 
  Man's 
  capacities 
  of 
  degra- 
  

   dation 
  stand 
  in 
  close 
  relation, 
  and 
  are 
  pro- 
  

   portionate, 
  to 
  his 
  capacities 
  of 
  improvement 
  

   What 
  faculty 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  mind 
  lies 
  nearer 
  

   to 
  the 
  very 
  centre 
  of 
  its 
  highest 
  life 
  than 
  

   the 
  faculty 
  of 
  Imagination? 
  Without 
  it 
  we 
  

   could 
  not 
  interpret 
  Nature, 
  or 
  form 
  any 
  

   conception 
  of 
  its 
  laws, 
  or 
  feel 
  their 
  harmony, 
  

   or 
  understand 
  their* 
  use. 
  Without 
  it 
  we 
  could 
  

   not 
  see 
  the 
  Abstract 
  or 
  read 
  the 
  Future. 
  

   Without 
  it 
  we 
  should 
  be 
  without 
  motive 
  to 
  

   resist 
  Impulse, 
  or 
  to 
  maintain 
  Conviction, 
  or 
  

   to 
  rise 
  to 
  Duty. 
  We 
  could 
  form 
  no 
  idea 
  

   whatever 
  of 
  Religion. 
  It 
  would 
  not 
  be 
  possible 
  

   to 
  desire 
  the 
  Unknown 
  or 
  to 
  hope 
  for 
  the 
  

  

  