The Scapegoat Upon Whom The Sins Of

For Extending Its Sway, Partly By Force Of Arms, Partly By The Voluntary Submission Of Weaker Tribes, The Community Soon Acquires Wealth And Slaves, Both Of Which, By Relieving Some Classes From The Perpetual Struggle For A Bare Subsistence, Afford Them An Opportunity Of Devoting Themselves To That Disinterested Pursuit Of Knowledge Which Is The Noblest And Most Powerful Instrument To Ameliorate The Lot Of Man.

In Point Of Fact Magicians Appear To Have Often Developed Into Chiefs And Kings.

The Slow, The Never Ending Approach To Truth Consists In Perpetually Forming And Testing Hypotheses, Accepting Those At Which At The Time Seem To Fit The Facts And Rejecting The Others.

The Old Notion That The Savage Is The Freest Of Mankind Is The Reverse Of The Truth. He Is A Slave, Not Indeed To A Visible Master, But To The Past, To The Spirits Of His Dead Forefathers, Who Haunt His Steps From Birth To Death, And Rule Him With A Rod Of Iron.

The Consideration Of Human Suffering Is Not One Which Enters Into The Calculations Of Primitive Man.