Fact will merge in fact; law will melt into a larger law ; one deep of knowledge will call unto another deep ; much that the proudest scientist of our day calls knowledge will vanish away ; many theories now popular will be dissected and pruned and will be found to be " such stuflf as dreams are made on," before the most enlightened humanity of a future age catches any one phase of nature in its snare and compresses it into rigid laws. Nevertheless, the ancestor of man was brutish, and his descendants are where they are. Whether or not primeval man was the rather unpicturesque creature described by Mr. Arnold, he was the norm from v,"hich has come " t^he heir of all the ages." From the cave-dweller, the aboriginal savage, have been evolved Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakspeare, Spinoza, Milton, Dante, Newton, Gladstone, Pascal, La Place, Lincoln, Emerson, Channing, Martineau, Thomas a Kempis, Phillips Brooks, Darwin and Herbert Spencer, How magnificent the ascent! How glorious the progression ! Man, once the companion of the Dragons of the prime That tare each other in their slime, ihas flowered into an intellectual, reasoning, moral being -- " how infinite in faculty ; in form and moving how express and admirable ; in action how like an angel ; in apprehension how like a god." All this progress, however, has cost its price. Step by step has the race advanced from primeval animalism to its present status. It has walked with bleeding feet. The Divine economy works in many ways. One of its ways is to educate, stimulate and spiritualize through antagonism and pain. All faculties, functions and potencies must be worked in order that they may grow. Atrophy,