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PR PACC. opinion that if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condilion oF the greater part of the human family if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater dominion over nature which is its consequence, and the wealth which follows upon that dominion are to make no difference in [lie extent and the intensity of want with its concomitant physical and moral degradation amongst the masses of the people, I should hail the advent of some kindly comet which would sweep the whole affair away as a desirable consumniation.'*

Dr. A. IL Wallace finds, that the result of the European mission in Afiica so far °liasbeen the sale of vast quantities of rum and gunpowder, much bloodshed owing to the objection of the natives to the seizure of their lands and cattle great demoralisation of black and white, and the condemnation of the conquered tribes to a modified form of s1avery.t

Qovernacnt Amarchy or Regia1CIitllLka Ctheckrt Rsws1 VcI. I.

Th Wonderlul Centcuy,' p. 372. M[ie COTCUi, Lu retent eis of NneWs Magazinc" nyc CiwLLizMicn is u great word. ft veads welL-.—it's tnedeverywine— r it bera itscGf proudLy L Lbt bngugr. IL is a big mouthfd of nogaece atid ssikufficiericy. The very eoui14 ( it fiiLttra our n&Sy and tesifl to the god opiniQn we have of ouracives. 1,Vt bcesr of Cidilinthrn II iI we were reaLly civilized; tn au we taik of N Christi*aLty" a 1 wt really ChrieLbus, Yet iL is aLl the vczie4 game of ms.ke.beIicvs for we are mere as'ages Still; avages j the IList ci the eye cd pride of