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THE ANGLO-SAXON AND THE WORLD'S FUTUBE.
and Wales, 1,173,000,000
;
if
as dense as that of Bel-
gium, 1,430,000,000. But we are to have not only the larger portion of the Anglo-Saxon race for generations to come, we may reasonably expect to develop the highest type of AngloSaxon civilization. If human progress follows a law of development, if " Time's noblest offspring
is
the last,"
our civilization should be the noblest " The heirs of
all
the ages in the foremost
;
for
flies
we
are
of time,"
and not only do we occupy the latitude of power, but our land is the last to be occupied in that latitude. There is no other virgin soil in the North Temperate Zone. If the consummation of human progress is not to be looked for here, if there is yet to flower a higher civilization, where is the soil that is to produce it? * " There has never been a Whipple says great migration that did not result in a new form of national :
genius."
English,
Our
national genius is Anglo-Saxon, but not type is the result of a finer
its distinctive
nervous organization, which"
oped
in this country.
"
is certainly
The history
being devel-
of the world's
progress from savagery to barbarism, from barbarism to civilization, and, in civilization, from the lower degrees toward the higher, is the history of increase in
average longevity,! corresponding to, and accompanied Mankind has grown to be by, increase of nervousness. at once more delicate and more enduring, more sensitive to weariness and yet more patient of toil, impressiwe are ble, but capable of bearing powerful irritation ;
*
Atlantic for Oct., 1858. t " It is ascertained that the average measure of human life, in this counand is now considerably try, has been steadily increasing during this century, longer than in any other country." Dorchester's "Problem of Religious
Progress," p. 288.