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"Nature in its infinite
complexity is ever growing.
Each successive result becomes
the parent of an additional influence,
destined in some degree
to modify all future results.
No fresh thread enters into the texture
of that endless web, woven in "the roaring loom of time" but what
more or less alters the
pattern.
It has been so
from the very beginning.
As we turn over the leaves of
the Earth's primeval history - as we
interpret the
hieroglyphics we find this
same ever beginning, never
ceasing change.
We see it in the organic and
inorganic - in
recombinations of matter constantly varying
forms of animal and vegetable life.
Forests
become bogs become coal basins,
igneous rock once sediment.
With
an altering atmosphere, and
an increasing temperature, land
and sea perpetually bring forth fresh races of insects, plants,
and animals.
Strata get
contorted; seas fill
up; land is alternately upheaved and
sunk.
Everything undergoes
metamorphsis.
Where once rolled
a fathomless ocean, now
tower the snow-covered peaks of
a wide-spread, richly-clothed country,
teeming with existence.
Where a vast continent once stretched, there
remain but a few lonely coral islets to mark the graves of submerged mountains.
Fixed only in name, the stars are incessantly changing their
relationships to each other.
New ones from time to time suddenly appear
whilst the members of nebula - suns and their satellites
sweep for ever onwards into unexplored
infinity.
Strange indeed would it be, if, in the midst of this
universal mutation, man alone were constant, unchangeable.
But he also
obeys the law of indefinite
variation.
His
circumstances are ever altering; and he is ever adapting himself.
Unnumbered degrees of difference lie between the
naked houseless savage and the
Newtons of
a civilized
state.
Superiority of sight enables a
Bushman to see further with
the naked eye than
a European with a
telescope.
Every - age,
nation, climate -
exhibits a modified form of
humanity.
In spite of adverse evidence,
the prevalent belief is
uniform human nature.
It is
impossible to use eyes or ears
without learning that
mankind varies and conceptions of Divinity differ
somewhat from ours.
In what regard can it be asserted that human
nature is always the same?
Whilst all nominally held the creed
professed, Christian Saint
names were battle cries; Bishops led
on their retainers to fight and slay Saracens.
To translate this
religion into peace, philanthropic effort,
into missionary enterprise, into
advocacy of temperance
something changed.
Does agitation for abolition of
death punishment indicate a
change since the day when Cromwell's body was exhumed and head stuck on Temple
Bar?
The days when criminals were
drawn and
quartered as well as hung ?
When church-doors were covered in the
skins of sacrilegious men?
Those who assert fixedness of human nature
tacitly disown their belief.
They constantly remark on differences of
national character, on peculiarities in human disposition, and on their own
refined tastes and superior feelings.
Admissions thus accidentally made
quite invalidate their dogma.
To the man of insight, the fact that he
himself changes with circumstances, from day to day, from year to year, in
sentiments, capacities, and desires, is sufficient to show that humanity is
indefinitely variable." - Herbert Spencer
"Dark human shapes could be made out
in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy
border of the forest, and near the river two bronze figures leaning on tall
spears stood in the sunlight under fantastic headdress' of spotted skins,
warlike and still in statuesque repose.
Along the lighted shore moved
a wild and gorgeous apparition of
a woman.
She walked with measured steps, draped in striped fringed
cloths, treading the earth proudly with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous
ornaments.
She carried
her head high.
Her hair was done in the shape of a helmet.
She had brass leggings to the knees, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow,
a crimson spot on her tawny cheek.
Innumerable necklaces of glass beads
hung on her neck, bizarre charms, gifts of witch-men, hung about her,
glittering and trembling at every step.
She must have had
the value of several
elephant tusks upon her.
She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and
magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in
her deliberate
entrance.
And in the
hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land,
the immense wilderness,
the colossal body of the fecund and
mysterious life seemed to
look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking
at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul. " - Joseph
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