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the jungle, too much engrossed in making history to write it, yet leaving records of himself, to reward the search of modern students of archae- ology. Instead of written testaments, bonds, stocks and title deeds, he be- queathed to posterity his bones-all he had to leave-save the increment to the race of his personal onslaught-up- on its primeval enemies That sloplng skplI might answer some of the ques- tions constantly arising in our minds as we study man since he began to keep written account of himself, and he said to Guizot and Gibbon and Green: Just wait a minute till we ask something of Morgan and Taylor and Westmarck and Brinton, the men who claim to have watched humanity in it's kindergarten" If we could in- terview a competent witness who was in at the birth of the race, he might explain to us the present complex be- ing who, apparently in good faith, in- fiuences the world to- establish a uni versal peace tribunal while he makes ready for the bloodiest struggle in the history of nations. Also he might eX- plain the remarkable fact that the world accepts and acts upon the sug- gestion, and goes on strengthening and extending the peace movement while it's prime instigator fightsi The key to the record which Russia is making in the Orient is the character of the pri- meval horde amalgamated and assim- Hated into her national life. The prin- cipIe is the same with all nations. We have not gone too far af1eld in our four years study of primitive man, during that long period when religion, art, science, statecraft, all that enters into the living organism which we call society, was embryonic, and the de- sire to compass the way in which man on his long journey grows stronger
 This fundamental study of humanity as a whole not only helps to an under standing of the career of respective na- tions, but it widens the outlook and cleanses the mind of race prejudices-- which is not the smallest mote that obscures the vision. We have more fellow feeling for our unwashed broth- er-the savage-when we look upon him as a living picture of our own early ancestors, and we take a more optimistic view of him. Respect for those remote ancestors is not altogeth- CT gratuitOus. Rather the lack of it marks our own thoughtlessness. We have said: 'The ancients considered everything III llle COQIlCAS put what of the alphabet? Can we con- ceive of a greater effort or ef1orescence of abstract thought than this classify ing of the sounds uttered by the hu- man voice, and the expression of them in few elementary symbols, used in the most meager speech, yet sufhcing for language in it's highest develop ment? Yet this great mile post of civ iliZation was set up so long ago that we are not sure who did it. We were once taught that it was done by the Phoenicians, but now it is said that they derived it from the Egyptians, and only pOpularized it.
 Frederick Harrison says: 'The true object of history is to show us the life of the human race in it's fitness, and to follow up the tale of it's continuous and difficult evolution" To gain a mental viewpoint where we can see the progress of civilization in intelligible sequence, is, he declares the, grea test achievement of modern thought ' Truly, the worlds a stage from the
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