Then why should all this not be true of man? And it is true of im. All man's history shows that there has been a tide in him, if I may so describe it, carrying him on and up. That man actually has risen from a lowly condition is certain. There has been an urgent force pushing him on. low else can we account for the high state of civilization reached in ancient Egypt so many thousands of years ago? Man has risen. There is no doubt of that. But we notice that man reached a certain level of moral and spiritual attainment and stopped there. Nay, he fell back. None can deny that the old Romans of the age of Cincinnatus were Mhorally superior to those of the imperial] age when it was universally confessed that the world was exhausted, and was dying for want of a new moral and spiritual impulse and power.
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