Origin and Primal Condition of Man. 



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consummate and supreme resultant of all the ages, shall 

 maintain his dominion henceforth till time shall be no more. 



At this point, indeed, where the light of physical science 

 proves insufficient, we may properly seek the aid of ethics 

 and theology. Man, though an animal in structure, is im- 

 measurably elevated above all animals, by his moral nature — 

 by his soul. To ascend higher than this would involve no 

 longer any such advance as that already made when pass- 

 ing from animals to man, but only a difference in degree. 

 Man, whatever his origin, has a future both for the race 

 and for the individual which is known to us only by reve- 

 lation, and which can only be rightly apprehended and 

 directed in accordance with a higher philosophy than mere 

 physical science. 



