like theirs. To this process who shall set an end? The advance
is slow, as in all evolution; but anyone who wishes to do so may
easily detect the direction of the current.

The evolution of man's physical frame probably has nearly ceased.
Gradually organs that are useless to him are passing away. Slowly his
hands are becoming more delicate and refined and skilled. But his
evolution has begun to work itself out on entirely other lines. We
sometimes hear that the men of the past were the full equivalent of
the men of to-day. Scholars like to tell us that the population of
Athens was finer in quality than any population that has existed
since. We must remember that group after group of men may be expected
to specialize intellectually and fail to develop morally and
physically. Under these conditions this little branch of the human
race runs through its forced flowering and comes to an end. With the
study of history and the earnest investigation of these lives of the
past, new possibilities arise within the human family. The next race
that flowers may take longer to decay because it understands better
the weaknesses that carried away the preceding civilization. In time
there will arise a civilization that understands the past. A whole
people will some time realize that intellectual development alone will
not save it, or Athens would have lasted; that moral development
alone will not suffice, or Judaea had been permanent; that physical
development will not serve, or Sparta would stand to-day. Some day
there will arise a nation that will see to it that every intellectual
advance is accompanied by an equivalent moral and physical advance.
When this time comes we shall have a race which can survive. Are we to
be that race? The sins of man are generally the dregs of his brute
ancestry. Bestiality of life was once common enough to attract no
attention. Kings and nobles were not supposed to be clean so long as
they confined their bestial relations to those below them in rank.
Gradually men are becoming ashamed of uncleanness in life. Some day
there will be no difference so far as purity of life is concerned,
between the two who present themselves at the altar asking the
blessing of God on their union.

If anyone doubts that English speaking people are becoming cleaner of
life he needs only to consult the literature of the past. No one
dreams of finding fault with Chaucer because his stories related in
the company of men and wom