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 developed by science and art, but character, which is the real man, is not materially elevated by these if they are turned into channels of mere aggrandizement and selfishness. The true development of man is essentially the increase and elevation of his love of God and of use, in the accomplishment of which, knowledge is essential.

The process of the development of the first civilization may always be more or less theoretical, yet sufficient facts may be gathered to throw some certain light upon this most interesting problem.

There are some things that may be known with certainty. The first civilization, as the Word teaches, did not develop out of savagery, but from primeval innocence. The whole course of logic is that civilization preceded barbarism, into which it subsequently fell. God could not create a man in His image and likeness, and at the same time make him a savage. The nature of the human required that man should have been created ignorant, yet innocent. As the first people were developed by the laws of creation, and free-will had not had opportunity to violate